The only thing Laura Covessi seemed to care about was the renewal of the mandate of the Greek European Public Prosecutors.

She is not interested in the opinion of politicians, she is not interested in the opinion of judges, she is not interested in legislation, she is not interested in the principle of separation of powers, she is not interested in the Supreme Court nor the Supreme Judicial Council, an institution that has been in existence for nearly 120 years, in general, it is not interested in any of the things that make up a full Democracy, where there is criticism, reason and contradiction.

This is roughly what European Public Prosecutor Laura Covesi from the Delphi Forum told us, albeit at the head of a very new institution that has neither been tested nor yet evaluated – the first evaluation is due in June 2026. And he said it in conversation with Pavlos Chima in Greece, i.e. the homeland of Protagoras, teacher of Pericles’ sons, who taught that for every reason there is a counterargument. The only thing she seemed to be interested in was the renewal of the mandate of the Greek European prosecutors.

Apparently she thinks that there are no other/other prosecutors in Greece – and this should now be a matter of concern for the Greek judiciary.

Only that in doing so, the very Regulation governing the operation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is repealed. Because when European Public Prosecutors are first appointed, the list is drawn up and submitted to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which selects the persons. These are prosecutors proposed by the Member State itself.

When the time comes to renew or not renew their mandate, it is envisaged that this will be decided jointly and not unilaterally, as she claimed in Delphi, arguing that the College of European Public Prosecutors has already decided on renewal.

Go to court!

He suggested that renewal requires an extra “administrative step” – he called the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Council, which “will make the right decision”, because he does not even want to consider the scenario of a negative outcome. “If someone thinks that the College did not take the right decision, they can appeal to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg,” he made clear, in the context of a more general dichotomy that has brought it up against many countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Croatia, Ireland, Romania).

In fact, she reiterated that “OPECEP is an acronym for corruption, nepotism and clientelism,” confirming his title of the only prosecutor on the planet who issues decisions before a court judgment.

As for the files that led to the waiver of the immunities of 13 MPs, he insisted: “Nobody in the world will convince me that these are part of the job of politicians” because “what is mentioned in the dossier is defined as crimes in all EU member states”. So, since he can’t be convinced, he can abolish laws and constitutions – and therefore he can (if he can, because only OLAF is allowed to do so) storm the European Parliament building and throw out the lobbies (which are nothing more than the official communication of MEPs with groups interested in legislative initiatives, contacts that are not incriminated unless there is an actual offence). “I’m tired of hearing ‘this is how we do things in Greece’. Really? I don’t think so,” said Covesi, citing a typical example that she said “shocked” her at the beginning of her term of office: “If you commit a fraud, you steal money, you get caught. Maybe you steal 10 million. In one moment, you get caught stealing 1 million. You return the money. You’re free to go. How so?”.

The annulment of OLAF

But that’s exactly what OLAF does. It identifies the amounts that should be returned to the EU and calls on the EU to claim them. Invalidate OLAF, then.

It is no coincidence that OLAF is very careful, sending only 1% of the cases it investigates to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Nor is it a coincidence that there is friction with OLAF, which is involved in investigations but mainly focuses on prevention rather than repression.

After all this, Tsipras, Syriza and all sorts of fellow travellers who were so keen to “control the joints of power” have become outraged. Those who considered the judiciary an “institutional obstacle” and “protection of every pimp”, those who set up the Novartis case, those who dreamed of parallel schools of judges, were outraged. Some will say that the political goal has been achieved.

With the difference that citizens know very well what democracy is – they have it in their DNA.

As for the Delphi oracle which Ms. Covesi said she would consult, beware.

The oracles of Pythia depended on such a tiny party: “Eyes, let go, thou shalt not die in war”, meaning “thou shalt go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in war”.

Shifting the party’s position, we have “Eyes, let go, thou shalt not die in war”. That is, “you will go, you will not return, you will die in the war.”

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