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On 1 July 2025, the European Commission released the thirteenth EU Justice Scoreboard, an annual comparative assessment of the efficiency, quality, and independence of justice systems in the EU. For the first time, the Scoreboard included additional indicators linked to the Single Market, underscoring the role of efficient and independent justice systems in supporting fair competition.

On 8 July 2025, the European Commission published its sixth annual Rule of Law Report, the first under its new mandate. It examined developments in all 27 EU Member States and, as in 2024, in four enlargement countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) and across four pillars: justice, anti-corruption, media freedom, and institutional checks and balances.

In early July 2025, the Secretariat of the Network of National Experts on Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) published its Fifth JITs Evaluation Report, providing practical findings, lessons learned, and best practices, with a particular focus on combating cybercrime. The report draws on 67 evaluations …

The Council of Europe adopted its Strategy on the Environment 2025–2030, setting out a forward-looking vision that links environmental protection with the organisation’s core values of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

In his opinion of 26 June 2025 on a case concerning the interpretation of the EIO Directive's provisions of videoconference hearings and the temporary transfer of persons in custody, AG Rantos advises that the ECJ strengthens the position of the issuing authority from Italy and declares incompatible the refusal by the executing Belgian authorities.

At the core of every successful cross-border operation are robust legal foundations that facilitate cooperation between the parties. Along with multilateral, bilateral, and national instruments, the EU's major Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies – Europol, Frontex, Eurojust, and, more recently, the European Public Prosecutor’s …

According to the ECJ's ruling of 10 July 2025 in WBS GmbH, an administrative authority that investigates crimes can be treated as "issuing authority" within the meaning of the EIO Directive, even if certain investigative measures sought (involving an interference with the fundamental rights of the person concerned) must, in accordance with national law, first be authorised by a judicial authority.