The Eurojust annual meeting on Migrant Smuggling (“the meeting”) was organised by Eurojust on 4 and 5 November 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation in Europe, the meeting took place in a hybrid format, with some participants on site at Eurojust premises and others online via video-conference.

Practitioners (prosecutors and investigative judges) from 28 countries and 7 international organisations attended the meeting, including from EU Member States, Albania, the UK, the USA, Eurojust Liaison Prosecutors from Montenegro, Switzerland, Serbia and Ukraine, representatives of the South Partner Countries (SPC) within the EuroMed Justice framework, as well as representatives from the European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) at Europol, Frontex, EUBAM –Libya, OSCE, Council of the EU and the European Commission.