Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The eu is thought to have lost more than ten billion euros to fraud over the last two decades, and yet its anti fraud and corruption agencies have long lacked the teeth to root out the problem. Could that be about to change . Well, my guest is romanian laura kovesi, the eus first Public Prosecutor. She has enhanced powers to tackle transnational crime. But if Member States refuse to play ball, how can she succeed . Laura kovesi in luxembourg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for the invitation. You have had almost a year since your appointment as the eus first chief Public Prosecutor. You are trying to deal with a very urgent problem that costs the eu billions of euros. What have you actually done so far . I took my office in 1st of november and i started to organise together with the small team that i founded here to, in the beginning, the administrative issues that are necessary. To start the eppo, its necessary to have the european pro
Coming up now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The eu is thought to have lost more than ten billion euros to fraud over the last two decades, and yet its anti fraud and corruption agencies have long lacked the teeth to root out the problem. Could that be about to change . Well, my guest is romanian laura kovesi, the eus first Public Prosecutor. She has enhanced powers to tackle transnational crime. But if Member States refuse to play ball, how can she succeed . Laura kovesi in luxembourg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for the invitation. You have had almost a year since your appointment as the eus first chief Public Prosecutor. You are trying to deal with a very urgent problem that costs the eu billions of euros. What have you actually done so far . I took my office in 1st of november and i started to organise together with the small team that i founded here to, in the beginning, the administrative issues that are necessary. To start the epp
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