On 20-21 November 2024, Eurojust hosted its eighth annual meeting on migrant smuggling. The event brought together practitioners from a number of Member States, non-EU countries, Western Balkan countries and EU southern partner countries. It provided a platform for identifying operational challenges...

This report summarizes the discussions of the Focus Group of Specialised Prosecutors against Trafficking in Human Beings ("THB Focus Group") during its third meeting held at the premises of Eurojust on 26 and 27 June 2024. The establishment of the THB Focus Group is a key action of the EU strategy...

Cross-border surrogacy arrangements, where a woman agrees to bear a child and to hand it over, on birth, to another party, can lead to human trafficking and the sale of children. Organised crime groups take advantage of the unharmonised national legislation on surrogacy in the EU Member States...