Andrés Ritter likes the comparison with Hollywood movies. There’s always that one scene where criminals lose their pursuers at the border because the officials in the neighboring US state have no authority. It used to be a bit like that in the EU. The situation has changed since the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which Ritter set up as Vice-President together with Laura Kövesi, Head of the Office, began its work in June 2021. „If criminals have no borders, then prosecutors should have no borders either,“ says Ritter.