The Court of Justice of the European Union handed down, on Monday 24 July, a ruling in which it concluded that national judges are - in principle - obliged to set aside national rules or case law that create a systemic risk of impunity for offences in the fight against fraud against the EU’s financial interests.
The Court of Appeal in Brasov, Romania, referred the case to the CJEU following the appeal lodged by several Romanian nationals sentenced to prison terms for tax fraud, in...