Combating economic and financial crimeEric Alt on criminal origins of the economic crisis (in french)
Corruption, crisis, law.
Public procurement conference in Bucharest
Fighting Public Procurement Criminality. An Operational Approach" has been developed in response to Romanian authorities' need to implement EU recommendations in the field of figh ting public procurement fraud, such as those of "Fighting Corruption in the EU (Com(2011) 308 final)" and the CVM report of February 8th 2012.
Meeting in Belgrade
Belgrade, June 29th 2012
Struggle against corruption : Aim of the first panel was to define recommendations for strengthening the independent status of Serbian judiciary in order to improve track record in effective prosecution and conviction of corruption cases. Second panel was dedicated to the overview of various systemic preventive anti-corruption mechanisms in public procurement and to defining recommendations for more efficient control of public finances.
Books
Corruption and anti-corruption in the Justice system, by Cristi Danilet
This paper deals with the subject in four distinct parts, looking at general matters of corruption that are relevant to the justice system, modalities and means of corrupting system workers, available international instruments in the field and the main anti-corruption methods or policies applicable in the justice system.
Appeal to enhance a EU fight against organized crime
June 22nd, 2012
In 1996, judges and prosecutors from several European Countries launched the Geneva Appeal. The Appeal denounced the fact that, in the shadows of the construction of Europe, there was another Europe in hiding – made of criminals, corrupt persons and fraudsters who found great chances of impunity in the opacity of economic and financial operations. Against this dark Europe, the Appeal signatories urged to get over the protectionism of national criminal systems and to establish a single European justice area.
In the 16 years which followed important changes occurred within the European Union. Now the single European justice area invoked by the Appeal is not only included in the Treaties, but it is a reality, though in progress.
Still, the dark Europe did not dissolve. On the contrary, it keeps prospering with an increasingly organised crime, accumulating and laundering profits on a global scale. The dark Europe has just became more insidious, stealing enormous assets, impoverishing and polluting the economy, politics and civil society.
An area of Freedom, Security and Justice
The European Public Prosecutor : a challenge for the European Union (Eric Alt), oct. 2010 : The European public prosecution service is not a goal in itself. It positions itself in a more global project that defines the balance between the efficiency requirement and the respect of fundamental rights.
