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A new European Union-level prosecutor s office position started work Tuesday, with Kristel Siitam-Nyiri (pictured) appointed Estonia s functionary. The office has been established as a way of investigating more efficiently financial crime which harms the European Union directly and which costs the bloc hundreds of millions of euros per annum. This is a historic moment for the European judicial space: for the first time, there is a body at European Union level with independent competence to carry out criminal proceedings and bring charges, Siitam-Nyiri said of her appointment to the European Public Prosecutor s Office (EPPO), Every year, member states report fraud of around €500 million, on average; if the if EPPO can get back even a tenth of this, our work will already be of great help, she added.
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The College of European Prosecutors has accepted the nomination of Superintendent Dr Geoffrey Azzopardi to act as Maltaâs European Delegated Prosecutor, together with Dr Martin Sammut.
This role falls within the structures of the European Public Prosecutors Office (EPPO) established in 2017, of which Malta became a participating member in October 2018.
EPPO is an independent and decentralised prosecution office of the European Union, endowed with the competence to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment crimes against the EU budget, such as fraud, corruption or serious cross-border VAT fraud â specifically those crimes referred to as âPIF Crimesâ.
SLAPPs: European Parliament to receive Commission’s first proposals in ‘coming days’ - Casa
MEPs demand more ‘powers to intervene’ against states with uninvited Europol corruption investigations and funding cuts; European Parliament to get its hands on the Commission’s first anti-SLAPP proposals soon
3 May 2021, 3:02pm
by David Lindsay
European Commission will shortly give MEPs its first proposals for an EU-wide law limiting the use and scope of SLAPPs
The European Commission will be delivering its first batch of proposals for an EU-wide law limiting the use and scope of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), Nationalist MEP David casa said Monday morning.