Laura Kovesi is trying to score “points” in Romania through her interventions regarding the alleged scandals of the Greek government.
The rejection by the Supreme Court of Laura Kovesi’s appeal regarding the term of office of European prosecutors, combined with what appears to be the shelving of the alleged major scandals at OPEKEPE—involving political figures, mainly those aligned with the ruling party—may well signal… a change in plans and direction for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Especially when she has left unresolved cases in her home country, Romania—the most significant of which may well be… her political career.
By a wide majority the Administrative Plenary Session of the Supreme Court rejected Laura Kovesi’s appeal to overturn the decision of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) that renewed the terms of the three Greek European First-Instance Prosecutors— Popi Papandreou, Dionysis Mouzakis, and Charikleia Thanos, as had already been decided by the College of European Prosecutors.
The Supreme Court ruled the appeal inadmissible, by a vote of 72 to 10, and on the grounds that Greek law stipulates that, regarding matters pertaining to the official status of judicial officers, only the officers themselves may appeal to the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court.
Kovesi was not present, and the EPPO was represented by constitutional law expert Spyros Vlachopoulos, who, in a brief, emphasized the primacy of EU law.
The same brief reportedly addresses the need to refer a preliminary question to the European Court of Justice in order to clarify who has the authority to renew the termsof the European Prosecutors, a view supported by 10 members of the minority in the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court, were applauded by the opposition parties that have… embraced Kovesi and her interventions from the very beginning!
Attention, therefore, is focused on the next moves by Laura Kovesi, who is said to have already set her sights on the European Court of Justice, before beginning preparations for her… return trip to Romania.
The opposition is showing the greatest enthusiasm for Kovesi’s next move, since it will provide yet another opportunity to attack the corrupt government and the biased Greek justice systemwhich won’t let the impartial and blameless European Prosecutor drive the knife into the backbone of corruption in Greece and expose ministers and members of parliament —preferably(!) New Democrats!
And within this context, the opposition is applauding and highlighting the Commission’s standard and entirely predictable response to the question posed by the vice-chair of The Left and SYRIZA MEP, Kostas Arvanitis, regarding the alleged attacks on the institution in connection with the OPEKEPE case.
“‘The European Commission fully supports the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO),’ states European Commissioner McGrath, responsible for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law, and Consumer Protection, and the political cheerleaders… are going wild.
Legal sources, however, were not surprised by the rejection of Laura Kovesi’s appeal, as they saw behind this move her intention to turn to the European Court of Justice in order to… keep the institutional dimensions alive, in connection with the investigations by the European Delegated Prosecutors, which are technically in full swing, such as the one into OPEKEPE’s illegal subsidies.
And while the Tycheropoulou report commissioned by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office concludes that there is no financial loss to EU funds resulting from the phone calls and… political interventions to resolve agricultural issues—and closes the case files that it had previously been sending in batches to Parliament, requesting the lifting of immunity for New Democracy MPs— yet another document that has come to light shows that the European Delegated Prosecutors (PApandreou, Mouzakis, and Thanos) had already received a detailed briefing as early as March 2025 regarding Ms. Tycheropoulou’s questionable actions in connection with the cover-up of illegal subsidies, but chose to continue working with her.
On April 29, 2025, the then-president of OPEKEPE, Nikos Salatas, in a confidential response document, outlined the reasons why Ms. Tycheropoulou not only should not have been seconded to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to assist with the investigations, but she herself should have been investigated for a host of violations!
Could it be, after all, did Laura Kovesi have serious reasons for extending the terms of the Greek European prosecutors?
In any case, no job is a disgrace.
Or are there some that are? Be that as it may, according to statements made by former Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, her main opponent who had subjected her to a series of prosecutions, “Laura Kovesi spent six years as a highly paid European official, but has achieved almost nothing… and she always had it in mind to return to Romania for a political career.
Her term is coming to an end, and she has already begun to get involved in Romanian politics by criticizing the Romanian judicial system. And she hopes to return and once again play the role of “anti-corruption fighter.” What she does in Greece and other countries, without touching the major EU member states, is simply a way to promote herself on the Romanian political scene next year, when she returns.”
Does Mr. Ponta know something more?
