This article examines the ongoing reform of the European Union’s anti-corruption mechanism against the backdrop of a large and vulnerable EU budget and persistent shortcomings

in protecting the Union’s financial interests. It identifies two core weaknesses of the current framework centred on OLAF: the lack of effective criminal follow-up [...]

This article analyses the evolution and functioning of international monitoring mechanisms established to evaluate states’ implementation of anti-corruption instruments.

After outlining the main global and regional conventions adopted since the mid-1990s, including those of the OAS, EU, OECD, Council of Europe, and the United Nations, [...]

This webinar, which forms part of a series of five co-funded by the European Union on enhancing cross-border mutual legal assistance and recognition of decisions within the

context of detention, will focus on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW).  It will explain its provisions and the roles and responsibilities of the various actors (judiciary, [...]

This conference will focus on how AI could be used in criminal proceedings, enabling the shift from a traditionally reactive approach to crimefighting to one that is more proactive

and preventative in character. It will discuss possible solutions for remedying the risks posed by AI and robotics in the criminal justice domain. [...]

This seminar addresses various challenges linked digitalisation that judges, prosecutors and lawyers in private practice working in the field of EU criminal justice will have

to face in the years ahead. Some of these challenges such as the exchange of electronic evidence, videoconferencing, use of open source intelligence, artificial intelligence, [...]

This online seminar will explore negotiated structured settlement frameworks to deal with corporations accused of criminal wrongdoings, such as acts of corruption or money

laundering. [...]

An investigation led by the EPPO in Athens, Greece resulted in the largest container seizure in the EU to date. A total of 2435 shipping containers, primarily containing e-bikes,

textiles, and footwear, were seized at the Port of Piraeus. The goods, which are estimated to be worth €250 million, were allegedly fraudulently imported from China [...]

Following the partial renewal of the Members of the General Court, the representatives of the governments of the Member States of the EU renewed the terms of office of 19 judges

of the General Court (Suzanne Kingston, Colm Mac Eochaidh, José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares, Miguel Sampol Pucurull, Hervé Cassagnabère, Saulius Lukas Kalėda, [...]

On 4 November 2025, the European Commission appointed Petr Klement, currently European Prosecutor for Czechia, as new Director-General of OLAF. He succeeds Ville Itälä whose

seven-year term of office ended on 31 July 2025. [...]

[EN] Focus: The EU‘s External Dimension in the Areas of PIF and JHA; [FR] Dossier particulier: La dimension extérieure de l‘UE dans les domaines de la PIF et JAI; [DE]

Schwerpunktthema: Die externe Dimension der EU in den Bereichen Finanzschutz und Justiz/Inneres [...]