"
We waited more than twenty years, we could well wait a few more months
", sighs this architect of the construction of a European public prosecutor's office.
Last Wednesday, this ambitious project finally materialized with the vote by the National Assembly of this new entity which will be empowered to investigate, then to have judged on behalf of Europe, all fraud in the interests of the Union. .
In other words, the diversion of European subsidies.
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The construction of this new legal entity marks, as the jurists modestly say, “
an important conceptual step
”, as it was not easy to harmonize all the European judicial and penal traditions.
Moreover, this new public prosecutor's office only involves 22 of the 27 members of the Union, excluding, therefore, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary and Poland.
Some of them refused for questions of legal systems, others for reasons of sovereignty.
However, everything has been done to spare
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