The EU’s judicial authority Eurojust is to be given new powers to prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The EU Commission today proposed giving the authority more options to collect, store and share evidence.
“We need to strengthen Eurojust to ensure it has the tools it needs to deal with the scale of atrocities in Ukraine,” said European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova.
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders stressed that those responsible for war crimes must be held accountable. Because of the ongoing war, the evidence in Ukraine is currently uncertain. It is therefore necessary to centrally protect the data of EU agencies as well as international authorities and civil society organisations. EU states and the European Parliament now have to negotiate the proposal.