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New European Prosecutors For Germany And Slovenia Reshape EPPO

Gísli Jóhannesson
Legislative Analyst, Anti-Fraud (OLAF)

Leipzig: The Council appointed two new European prosecutors on 28 September 2026, giving the EU’s financial crime watchdog fresh faces for Germany and Slovenia as it works through a very heavy caseload. Christopher Wenzl will serve for Germany from 1 November 2026, and Tanja Frank Eler will represent Slovenia shortly after the Council’s decision is published.

Both new European prosecutors will serve six-year, non-renewable terms. Their arrival belongs to a wider renewal of the College of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), where seven mandates expired in July 2026. Non-renewable terms are meant to protect independence, because prosecutors cannot bargain for reappointment while handling politically sensitive fraud files.

The scale of the work explains why the new European prosecutors matter. At the end of 2025 the EPPO had 3,602 active investigations, with total estimated damages of more than €67.27 billion, according to the Council’s announcement. Those figures cover crimes against the EU budget such as customs and VAT fraud and the misuse of EU funds, and they make the office one of the busiest prosecution bodies in Europe.

The EPPO operates from Luxembourg and now includes every member state except Ireland and Denmark. Each participating country sends one European prosecutor to the College, and these prosecutors supervise investigations that European Delegated Prosecutors carry out in their home jurisdictions. The arrival of new European prosecutors for Germany therefore affects the country with one of the largest economies and the most complex cross-border cases.

The renewal follows another leadership decision this year. In March 2026 the Council confirmed Andrés Ritter as the new European Chief Prosecutor, so the office is going through a generational change in its top team. Continuity will depend on how well the new European prosecutors absorb existing case files and keep working relations with national authorities.

The appointments also matter for the broader anti-fraud architecture. The EPPO prosecutes criminal offences, while OLAF conducts administrative investigations, and the two bodies rely on smooth information sharing to avoid gaps. Auditors and MEPs have repeatedly pressed both institutions to improve cooperation and recovery of lost money, which sets a clear test for the new team.

For taxpayers, the practical question is whether more prosecutors on the College will translate into faster results. The caseload of more than 3,600 investigations suggests that the new European prosecutors will have little time to settle in, and their first decisions will show how the renewed College plans to tackle damage worth more than €67 billion.

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