EU ACTS ON ORGANISED CRIME – BUT WILL IT WORK?

This year - 2014 – could be a watershed in the progress towards greater harmonisation of criminal justice measures throughout the European Union (EU) aimed at organised crime, corruption and money laundering.A final report (2013/2107(INI)) last September (2013) by the European Parliament’s special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering (CRIM) provided detailed recommendations that were filtered and approved by the parliament’s plenary session late October.Headline recommendations sent to the European Commission and the EU Council of ...


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