A tri-regional event on tackling drug trafficking routes via West Africa, the Western Balkans and EU ports through enhanced judicial cooperation took place on 11-12 February at Eurojust.

The Western Balkans Criminal Justice Project (WBCJ), with the support of the JITs Network Secretariat at Eurojust, successfully held the second edition of the Winter Academy on Judicial Cooperation in Cross-Border Organised Crime from 9 to 12 December 2025 at the European Public Law Organization...

Organised crime groups are operating on a global scale and evolving at an unprecedented pace, exploiting new technologies and geopolitical instability. These once-local groups are spanning continents and currencies, well beyond EU borders. To bring down globalised criminal networks effectively...

A high-level meeting between Prosecutors General from eleven Latin American countries and four Western Balkan countries took place on 2–3 December 2025 at Eurojust premises.

The Western Balkans Cri minal Justice Project (WBCJ) organised a study visit on environmental crime in Paris, France, on 24–25 November 2025, following the successful regional conference held in Ohrid in June 2025.

The Western Balkans Criminal Justice project (WBCJ), in cooperation with the European Judicial Cybercrime Network (EJCN), organised a specialised training on investigating and prosecuting crimes involving crypto-assets this week in Tirana.

Top prosecutors from the Balkan region gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the 4th Forum of Prosecutors General of the Balkan States, a key event in the regional effort to tackle organised crime. Eurojust played a key role in the high-level gathering, with President Michael Schmid delivering an opening...

Seventeen suspected human traffickers were arrested in a global operation involving the Albanian and Colombian authorities. The suspects had set up a human trafficking network to recruit vulnerable women from Colombia for sexual exploitation in Europe. The investigation and action day received...

On 10 September 2025, the Western Balkans Criminal Justice (WBCJ) project organised a workshop for prosecutors and investigators from the Western Balkans, Moldova and Ukraine on investigating and prosecuting intellectual property (IP) crime across borders. The event took place in Alicante, Spain and...

For the second consecutive year, the Western Balkans Criminal Justice Project (WBCJ) successfully held its flagship training on Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) for judicial and law enforcement authorities from the Western Balkan region. The training, organised in cooperation with the JITs Network...