Schmeer The European Public Prosecutor’s Office

From Sovereignty to Supranationalism
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-75550-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmeer, Laura

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.