ABSTRACT
The changing landscape of EU internal security requires more attention to global and hybrid threats than ever. The European Union territory and the Schengen Area are the subject of various policies and strategies, which aim to preserve the common area of Justice and Home Affairs cooperation and a secure Europe. Since the Migration crisis of 2014/2015 an enormous number of activities have been undertaken to increase the security of external borders. Existing law enforcement agencies – Eurojust (the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation), Europol (the European Police Office), and OLAF (the European Anti-Fraud Office), were lacking any executive power to conduct criminal investigations and prosecutions and were therefore perceived as mostly assisting expert centrum or administrative verification offices. The EPPO, a new independent EU body, was therefore an important step forward, and is soon to be fully operational, although it is still to undergo serious further development.
