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This issue is dedicated to ‘Individual Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’.

In the news section on the European Union the following items are of particular interest:

- Political reflections on the future of the European Union, including the Rome Declaration and the Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe;

- Current developments in the evaluation of OLAF Regulation No. 883/2013;

- Cooperation between Europol and various stakeholders;

- The way forward for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office;

- State of play of the PIF Directive;

- Initiatives on the part of the European Commission and the European Parliament
to better protect whistleblowers;

- Recent case law of the European Court of Justice on mutual recognition instruments: Case C-640/15, Vilkas (European Arrest Warrant), Case-C-289/15, Grundza (enforcement of custodial sentences, double criminality check), and Case C-582/15, Van Vemde (applicability of FD 2008/909).


On page 19, the EJN website and, namely, the table prepared by the EJN Secretariat regarding the status of transposition of the Directive 2014/41/EU on the European Investigation Order in criminal matters (available in the EJN Judicial Library) are mentioned.