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Dear readers, With the support of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the Hungarian government, under its six-month Presidency of the European Union, hosted a conference in March 2011 on “Protecting Victims in the EU: the Road Ahead.” The conference coincided with the ten-year anniversary of Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings, a decade that has seen legislative developments for victims “on paper” but which has suffered from a lack of concrete action for victims in practice in a number of EU Member States. As research by the FRA on vulnerable victim…

Dear Readers, I feel very honoured that I have been asked to introduce this issue of eucrim. Having been appointed as Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) in February 2011, I will devote my full attention to creating a new vision for the office and its dedicated staff while taking into account its sound experience as an effective administrative investigative service. OLAF’s strengths of both contributing to prevention policies and conducting investigations will be developed by further improving OLAF’s operational efficiency and internal governance. The central topic of this eucrim issue is “implementation of legal instruments” – a point…

The article explores the transposition of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combating racism and xenophobia into the Greek legal order and situates this process within the broader development of European criminal law as a hybrid and evolving field.

The article examines the UK Bribery Act 2010 as a major reform of corporate criminal law, replacing fragmented anti-corruption legislation with a comprehensive and far-reaching framework.

This article focuses on the different implementation solutions of mutual recognition framework decisions, based on a study of the first four framework decisions and their implementation in the Nordic Member States. The Lisbon Treaty changed the environment of EU criminal law and explicitly mentions mutual …

This online seminar will address the current European anti-money laundering landscape and focus on the changes implemented since the adoption of the latest EU AML/CFT package.

This webinar provides legal professionals with a comprehensive overview of how  artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the practice, administration, and regulation of taxation in the European Union.

At the beginning of December 2025, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Brussels conducted searches in several buildings of the College of Europe in Bruges, at the European External Action Service in Brussels, and at the homes of three suspects in connection with alleged …