The European Union (EU) has expressed its commitment to ensuring consistency and coherence of its external and internal policies in the fight against impunity for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (‘core international crimes’).1 Within its Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) policy, the EU...

The Terrorism Convictions Monitor (TCM) is intended to provide a regular overview of the terrorism-related developments throughout the EU area. The Monitor has been developed on the basis of open sources information available to the Case Analysis Unit and methodologies such as individual case...

The strategic meeting on trafficking in human beings (THB) was organised by Eurojust in The Hague on 16 and 17 April 2015 as part of Eurojust’s strategic project on THB. Over the course of the two days, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement authorities and THB experts analysed the challenges posed by...

BlackShades was an organisation developing and selling malicious software (malware) that enabled buyers to infect computers and remotely take over and control the operations of the infected computers, and perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks, among other things. An FBI...

Cooperation among the Member States and with non-European countries has been a key factor in the decrease in the number of the pirate attacks in the important shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden during the past four years. Countries have worked together, both to ensure free passage through the...

The Terrorism Convictions Monitor (TCM) is intended to provide a regular overview of the terrorism-related developments throughout the EU area. The Monitor has been developed on the basis of open sources information available to the Case Analysis Unit and methodologies such as individual case...