Last week (7 November), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich carried out more than 200 searches in several locations in Germany and the Netherlands, during an operation against an alleged customs and VAT fraud ring understood to ...
The Council today adopted a recommendation assessing the progress made by the 26 participating member states to fulfil the more binding commitments undertaken in the framework of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO). The Council underlines that participating member states ...
With a view to creating a network of interconnected digital public administrations and accelerating the digital transformation of Europe’s public sector, the Council presidency and the European Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the proposed legislation regarding measures ...
Following today’s Foreign Affairs Council, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell chaired an EU-Western Balkans ministerial meeting gathering the EU’s Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from the Western Balkans. The High ...
The Council today approved conclusions on the first EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence. The Council recalled the EU’s longstanding commitment to international law and to the values and guiding principles developed in the United Nations framework, and ...
The Council adopted new rules today which will allow people who plan to travel to the Schengen area to apply online for a visa. The Schengen area is a zone of 27 European countries which have abolished many types ...
As part of two ongoing investigations into a suspected €15 million fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania), 38 house searches were carried out on 7 November 2023. The searches were conducted in several ...
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has initiated an investigation against 29 Croatian citizens, detained today at the EPPO’s request, and one company, for suspected subsidy and procurement fraud at the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb ...
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), 14 searches were carried out yesterday, in an investigation into a suspected transnational criminal organisation believed to have orchestrated a €17 million VAT fraud involving the ...
Today the Council agreed to the Commission’s proposal to provide a total of €454.8 million in disaster relief aid to Romania and Italy, to repair damage inflicted by natural disasters in 2022, and to Türkiye, in relation to the ...