EU to give boost to prosecutor’s office as part of new anti-corruption measures later this year

A series of a new anti-corruption proposals are set to be tabled by the European Commission before the end of the year.

The announcement on Friday (17 July) follows the publication of reports that attempt to decrypt rule-of-law issues in each of the 27 member states.

Speaking to reporters in Brussels, the EU’s democracy commissioner Michael McGrath said the new proposals aim to strengthen the European Public Prosector Office (EPPO), a Luxembourg-based office that can already launch criminal investigations.

“We have conducted an evaluation of the EPPO that will lead to a proposed revision of the EPPO regulation that will be later this year,” he said.

The proposal will also review the EU’s so-called anti-fraud architecture, a term that spans a whole array of policies, rules and agencies that together seek to stop people stealing EU taxpayer money.