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May 26, 2021 "I am very pleased to inform you that today it has been confirmed that the Eppo will start operating on June 1", the new European Public Prosecutor. This was announced by the Vice President of the European Commission, Vera Jourova, at the end of the College of Commissioners. "We are really about to launch the first independent European office to prosecute crimes that also affect the budget. This will have an impact and will change the situation," he added.



"From 1 June, European prosecutors, under the leadership of Laura Kovesi, will therefore have this action to ensure that European citizens' money will be protected from corruption and fraud. This is more important than ever because 750 billion is the funds we have decided on. to invest with Next Generation Eu and therefore the Eppo will ensure that these funds are used to help the economy and citizens also in the recovery from the Covid crisis ", he concluded. 



Cartabia: "A legacy of Giovanni Falcone"

During the celebration of the 29th anniversary of the Capaci and Via D'Amelio massacres, the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia intervened recalling the precious work of Giovanni Falcone who went "in search of the economic strength of the mafia that led him to develop the awareness that national borders had to be overcome ". "At the European level, Giovanni Falcone was the first to realize that a criminal protection of financial interests was needed", he stressed. And he anticipated that "in a few weeks the European Public Prosecutor's Office will start, a new institution born with the idea of ​​coordinating the various forms of investigation in the economic-financial field that represents an institution of the European Union: here too we find a legacy from Falcone ".


Ms Cartabia @minGiustizia about the late Falcone and #EPPO: "He was a strong supporter of national and international judicial cooperation. Some of the fruits of his intuition bring us here today to discuss the starting of the European prosecutor's office."

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- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) (@EUProsecutor) May 24, 2021