From June 9th to 10th, at the European Parliament in Brussels, the I Permanent Interinstitutional Forum – Geopolitics of Transnational Organized Crime, Financial Intelligence, and International Judicial Cooperation, hosted by MEP Ana Miguel Pedro, will bring together approximately 60 experts from diverse legal systems—including Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Germany, and France.
Against a backdrop of increasingly sophisticated criminal networks, the Forum aims to enhance cooperation among public authorities, the judiciary, academia, and research institutions. By promoting dialogue and the sharing of best practices, it seeks to advance coordinated international responses to criminal phenomena that are ever more transnational, technologically enabled, and difficult to trace through traditional financial oversight mechanisms.
Speakers include:
- Ana Miguel Pedro, MEP
- Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President of FGV
- Antonio José Campos Moreira, Attorney General of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ)
- Paulo Jorge Vieira Morgado de Carvalho, Deputy Attorney General of the Republic of Portugal
- Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Ambassador Mission of Brazil at the EU
- Eva Poptcheva, Head of Unit, EPRS (External Policies Unit), European Parliament
- Lena Dupont, MEP
- Caterina Chinnici, MEP
- Francesco Menditto, Retired Public Prosecutor; Former Public Prosecutor before the Court of Tivoli
- Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, MEP
- Anabela Miranda Rodrigues, Professor Emerita of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra; Former Minister of Internal Administration of Portugal
- Carlos Augusto Pires Brandão, Justice of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil
- Luis Alberto Arroyo Zapatero, Professor Emerita of Criminal Law, University of Castilla–La Mancha
- Antonio Lopez-Istúriz White, MEP
- Jo de Cock, Head of the Organised Crime and Drug Trafficking Unit, European Commission
- Paulo Cunha, MEP
Jointly organized by FGV Europe and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ), the Forum will promote a strategic dialogue, promoting innovative, evidence-based approaches to global challenges in security, justice, and governance.