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This book offers a comprehensive account of the creation of the European Public Prosecutor s Office and the development of a supranational criminal justice system by national and European institutional actors. It analyses the emergence of an EU authority in criminal justice, one of the last bastions of national sovereignty. It explains how and why core state powers were delegated to this new European law enforcement body and how sovereignty was reconfigured in this context. This book reveals the political dimension of the EU criminal justice domain, thereby illuminating how sovereignty is understood by national and European decision-makers today and negotiated in an intricate process of accommodating conflicting norms and interests.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Creating the EPPO: supranational criminal justice, but not yet?.- Chapter 2: The discursive construction of supranational authority.- Chapter 3: The European Commission: a discursive entrepreneur for supranational criminal justice.- Chapter 4: National governments in the Council of the EU: negotiating sovereignty.- Chapter 5: The European Parliament: running hot and cold on the EPPO?.- Chapter 6: National parliaments: blowing the whistle on subsidiarity.- Chapter 7: The EPPO: a new era of supranational criminal justice.
About the author
Laura Schmeer
obtained her Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in January 2024. Her work focuses on EU institutions and decision-making, EU bodies and agencies, and the EU Justice and Home Affairs domain.
Summary
This book offers a comprehensive account of the creation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the development of a supranational criminal justice system by national and European institutional actors. It analyses the emergence of an EU authority in criminal justice, one of the last bastions of national sovereignty. It explains how and why core state powers were delegated to this new European law enforcement body and how sovereignty was reconfigured in this context. This book reveals the political dimension of the EU criminal justice domain, thereby illuminating how sovereignty is understood by national and European decision-makers today and negotiated in an intricate process of accommodating conflicting norms and interests.
