FIRST EU JUSTICE COMMISSIONER MAY REALISE GOAL OF CREATING EUROPEAN PUBIC PROSECUTOR POST
January 1st, 2010
BY DAVID HAWORTH
IT is, perhaps, a sign of the European Union's (EU) growing role in fighting crime: from February, it will have its first justice Commissioner. David Haworth reports from Brussels on how a new 27-member European Commission that should take office on February 9 might fight commercial crime.
FOR years, the creation of a European Public Prosecutor's office, able to chase down cross-border criminals across the EU and bring them to justice has been something of a New Jerusalem for Eurocrats. But it hasn't happened, partly because the EU's 27 member ...
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