EU law is a separate legal framework, different from international law, and integrated into the legal systems of the Member States. The Union's legal framework is based on autonomous legal sources. Different nature of these sources requires the introduction of a hierarchy among them. At the top...

Since 2012, more than 145 Eurojust cases dealt with Italian mafia-type OCGs, such as Cosa Nostra, Camorra and Ndrangheta. The casework at Eurojust confirms the transnational dimension of the Italian mafia-type OCGs, which over the years have consolidated their global partnerships with other...

In Europe, it is difficult to solve problems with international cooperation between various organizations and institutions, and is especially relevant. That places a question for coordination and interaction between the law enforcement structures, and sometimes hampers the effectiveness of...

At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, processes of globalization led to significant changes in law and its sources. New sources of law - constitutions and international treaties, have an increasingly important role in law. The relative weight of the...

EU law is a separate legal framework, different from international law, and integrated into the legal systems of the Member States. The Union's legal framework is based on autonomous legal sources. Different nature of these sources requires the introduction of a hierarchy among them. At the top...

Extradition is one of the issues that Europe was committed from the outset, so the first convention about this issue was made in 1957 by the Council of Europe. The European arrest warrant was established by an EU framework decision in 2002. With the ratification of the Council Framework Decision...

The European Union aims to ensure that people live in an area of freedom, security and justice, without internal boundaries. Europeans need to feel confident that, wherever they move within Europe, their freedom and their security are well protected, in full compliance with the Union's values,...

The objective is to provide information, guidance and advice to practitioners on the formation of joint investigation teams (JITs). It was developed by the JITs Network - in cooperation with Eurojust, Europol and OLAF - and enhances the previous JITs manual in light of the acquired practical...

The formation of a punitive policy is a historic process that arises in the first state-run societies of Sumer and Assyro-Babylonia and develops simultaneously with the improvement of political and state organization. Outstanding merit for the formation of modern criminal policy, criminal law...

Since 2012, more than 145 Eurojust cases dealt with Italian mafia-type OCGs, such as Cosa Nostra, Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta. The casework at Eurojust confirms the transnational dimension of the Italian mafia-type OCGs, which over the years have consolidated their global partnerships with other...