Year 2017 was a year of significant achievements and changes at Eurojust.

We welcomed the election of new College Presidency members and the appointment of a new Administrative Director. The implementation of a new organisational structure for the Administration and simplification of the College’s substructures and decision-making processes completed an institutional reform designed to make Eurojust a more solid, efficient and sustainable organisation. An organisation better equipped to fulfil its mission to serve as the European home to the thousands of national prosecutors and law enforcement officials who – every day, everywhere in Europe – work hard to fight all forms of criminality, especially in our priority crime areas: terrorism, cybercrime, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings.

Eurojust’s new premises hosted a record-breaking 4 400 judicial and police authorities who sought our support to overcome the legal and practical problems affecting their investigations and prosecutions, and to negotiate and agree with their foreign counterparts on how to jointly dismantle criminal networks. Eurojust worked with these thousands of national prosecutors and law enforcement officials in more than 2 600 criminal investigations and prosecutions, most of them of a highly complex nature, the largest number of cases ever registered at Eurojust. More than 8 000 practitioners visited our premises to seek answers, best practice and inspiration in the field of judicial cooperation. They all came to Eurojust to ensure that justice and security are brought to our citizens.