well, my guest is romanian laura kovesi, the eu's first public prosecutor. 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 eu's 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, it's necessary to have the european prosecutors as those prosecutors who will work here with me in luxembourg. and also we need to have the european delegated prosecutors. the european delegated prosecutors is those prosecutors who will work in their national member states. would you agree... ..would you agree with me that the problem is indeed very urgent? we are talking about the r