Following Poland’s accession to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), the authority expects significantly higher case numbers. „Based on the estimates of our Polish colleagues, we are expecting several hundred additional cases per year“, Andrés Ritter, deputy head of EPPO, told Table.Briefings. „Our workload could therefore increase by 25 to 30 percent.“ Ritter emphasizes that high case numbers do not mean that there are particularly many irregularities in one country, but that the authorities are pursuing them more vigorously than elsewhere.