Who Reviews the Conditions of Union Power? The Kövesi Litigation and a Blind Spot in the Judicial Review of Hybrid EU Governance

Joanna Demopoulou holds a PhD in International Affairs and is a former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Her research examines the legal and institutional architecture of public authority and governance, focusing on how law structures, distributes, and constrains public authority across European and international institutions. Photo: Laura Kövesi, by AGERPRES, cropped by Ionutzmovie, via Wikimedia Commons EU law can examine almost any exercise of public power. Where it struggles is with the decision, taken a step earlier, about whether that power may exist at all. The Kövesi litigation is where the gap becomes visible. On 24 June 2026 the Administrative Plenum of the Greek Court of Cassation dismissed, as inadmissible, an application brought by the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi. She had challenged a Greek decision renewing three European Delegated Prosecutors (EDPs) for two years, where the College of the European Public Prosecutor's…