{"id":89863,"date":"2026-05-22T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/89863\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:16:09","slug":"top-eu-prosecutor-complains-to-brussels-about-greece-amid-farm-fraud-probe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/89863\/","title":{"rendered":"Top EU prosecutor complains to Brussels about Greece amid farm fraud probe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a letter to the European Commission on Friday, K\u00f6vesi<\/a> said that the “hasty” move by the government in Athens \u201chas a negative effect on the EPPO\u2019s ability to effectively investigate and prosecute offences under its competence in Greece.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also has sent a formal complaint regarding the amendment to Greek Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis.<\/p>\n

In her letter to the Commission, K\u00f6vesi said the Greek Supreme Judicial Council recently refused to renew the mandate of three European Delegated Prosecutors for five years, as requested by EPPO, which \u201chas a negative effect on the EPPO\u2019s independence in Greece.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prosecutors are currently investigating the farm fraud scandal<\/a> and have sent case files to the Greek parliament requesting the lifting of the immunity of several lawmakers accused of involvement. More cases are expected in the future. Earlier this month, the Judicial Council renewed the terms of the delegated prosecutors for just two years.<\/p>\n

K\u00f6vesi said these developments \u201ccast serious doubts as to the Greek authorities\u2019 compliance with their obligation of sincere cooperation\u201d with the EPPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a letter to the European Commission on Friday, K\u00f6vesi said that the “hasty” move by the government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[2818,47476,211,210,219,25107,19005,1919,47477,47478,2855],"class_list":["post-89863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-agriculture","tag-agriculture-and-food","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-cooperation","tag-farms","tag-fraud","tag-greece","tag-greek-politics","tag-laura-codruta-kovesi","tag-parliament"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116619364702171312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}