The events introduced the EuroLegalBot chatbot to justice practitioners and relevant institutional stakeholders, presenting its goals, design, functionalities and potential contribution to European Arrest Warrant procedures.
EuroLegalBot, Enhancing Judicial Cooperation through a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) Chatbot, is developing a specialised AI-based support tool designed to assist practitioners working in criminal judicial cooperation, with a specific focus on the European Arrest Warrant. The chatbot aims to facilitate access to reliable legal information, support procedural preparation, improve familiarity with EAW-related requirements and contribute to more efficient cross-border judicial cooperation.
The three national events were implemented between April and May 2026 and involved a total of 96 participants. The Italian event was organised online on 15 April 2026 by Agenfor International Foundation and the Court of Appeal of Venice, gathering 25 participants, including law enforcement agents, magistrates, lawyers and court officers. The French event took place on 13 May 2026 at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg, organised by EEEI, with 51 participants from courts of appeal, ministries of justice, expert associations, academia, the legal profession and institutional bodies. The Greek event was organised by EPLO in Athens on 28 May 2026, involving 20 participants, including prosecutors, lawyers, police officers, legal experts, academics and practitioners active in judicial cooperation and cross-border criminal proceedings.
Across the three countries, the events followed a common structure: an introduction to the EuroLegalBot project and its relevance for European judicial cooperation, a presentation of the chatbot's design and technological architecture, a live demonstration of its practical use, an interactive Q&A session and the collection of feedback from participants. The events also represented an important step towards the recruitment and engagement of practitioners who may be involved in the following piloting phase of the chatbot.
During the presentations, EuroLegalBot was introduced as a specialised support tool for EAW practice and broader cross-border criminal judicial cooperation. The chatbot was presented as a solution capable of helping practitioners access curated and verified legal sources, navigate procedural issues, support drafting and preparation activities, and interact with legal information through multilingual and natural-language functionalities. Particular attention was dedicated to Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Natural Language Processing, semantic legal retrieval, response traceability, data protection and the importance of avoiding inaccurate or non-verifiable outputs.
The live demonstrations played a central role in all three events. In Italy, participants tested the chatbot online through guided and hands-on activities, focusing on interface navigation, query submission, document generation, feedback mechanisms and user testing. In France, the in-person demonstration highlighted browser-based access, multilingual interaction, legal information retrieval, validated sources and EAW drafting and execution scenarios. In Greece, the demonstration was combined with a legal seminar format and focused on browser-based use, natural-language interaction, multilingual queries and general EAW-related questions.
The discussions confirmed strong interest among justice practitioners in AI-supported legal tools, provided that they remain reliable, transparent, verifiable and clearly positioned as support instruments rather than substitutes for professional legal assessment. Participants recognised EuroLegalBot's potential to assist legal research, procedural preparation, training activities and access to comparative legal information. At the same time, they underlined the need to strengthen usability, source transparency, jurisdiction-specific contextualisation, technical performance and user guidance. Data protection, professional accountability, legal reliability and the importance of human oversight were recurrent themes across the three national contexts.
The feedback collected during the events will directly support the next development and piloting phases of EuroLegalBot. Key recommendations include improving source referencing and response traceability, strengthening jurisdiction-specific and comparative legal information, developing tutorials and prompt examples, enhancing technical stability and access procedures, ensuring continuous legal updating of the datasets, expanding drafting-support functions and maintaining strong data protection safeguards, including EU-based infrastructure and offline deployment options for sensitive contexts.
Overall, the three national presentation events confirmed the relevance of EuroLegalBot for justice practitioners dealing with the European Arrest Warrant and cross-border criminal cooperation. They also provided valuable practical feedback to guide the refinement of the chatbot before wider operational testing and validation. Through the direct involvement of practitioners in Italy, France and Greece, EuroLegalBot continues to advance towards its goal of delivering a trustworthy, user-oriented and legally grounded digital assistant for European judicial cooperation.