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Euro: Why criminals love the €500 note

The 500 euro note is a runaway success. Smugglers and money-launderers much prefer it to the dollar, making it the underworld's currency of choice.

16 August 2010
4031 La Vanguardia Barcelona
Austria: Austrian justice neutralised by corruption

The revelation of the hidden financial holdings of former right-wing populist leader, the late Jörg Haider, has brought to light the extent of corruption in […]

13 August 2010

Presseurop
Falter
Czech Republic: Underworld's "last Mohican" behind bars

"Pitr arrested" trumpets Hospodářské noviny. On the run for several years, the businessman who is seen as "the living symbol of the ties between the […]

29 July 2010

Presseurop
Hospodářské Noviny
Netherlands: State must help children of migrants

"The State must assume responsibility for the children of illegals", writes Trouw the day after a verdict was handed down by the Dutch Court of […]

28 July 2010

Presseurop
Trouw
Religion: Italy leads battle for the Holy Cross

The European Court of Human Rights has begun debating Italy's appeal against its ruling that the display of crucifixes in public places constitutes "a violation of religious […]

1 July 2010
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La Stampa
Northern Ireland: Official apology for Bloody Sunday

The much awaited report into the deaths of 14 innocent people shot dead by the British Army on Bloody Sunday was greeted by scenes of […]

16 June 2010

Presseurop
The Belfast Telegraph
Romania: Scrapped anti-corruption body too effective

"ANI has been scrapped" reports Revista 22. The National Integrity Agency (ANI), an organisation with a brief to fight corruption in Romanian politics has been sentenced to […]

21 April 2010

Presseurop
Revista 22
European of the week: Baltasar Garzón, judge in the dock

Famous for having prosecuted Pinochet, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is facing trial at the Supreme Court of having committed abuses of power while investigating crimes committed under Francoism. Is he a hero or an megalomaniac? wonders El País.

9 April 2010
432 El País Madrid
Serbia: Apologies with a bitter aftertaste

"The Serb parliament on 31 March adopted a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre, in which close to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb […]

1 April 2010

Presseurop
Timpul
Romania: Bucharest, mafia haven

Wanted for over 20 years by the Italian police, Sicilian Mafioso Giuseppe Scuderi (44) was finally apprehended on 16 March – in Bucharest. Scuderi, whom […]

17 March 2010

Presseurop
Adevărul
Trade: EU hands Palestinians a legal victory

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that products originating from the Israeli-occupied territories may no longer benefit from custom duties exemptions granted to […]

26 February 2010

Presseurop
Le Soir
Turkey: European justice is Turkish delight

Violations of freedom of religion, equality before the law, human rights: a great many Turks bypass their own legal system to put their case directly to the European Court of Human Rights. A phenomenon that vexes jurists no end, but is gradually changing the Turkish mindset.

19 February 2010
261 Trouw Amsterdam
EU-US: MEPs swat Swift

"It just squeaked by," sighs Tagenszeitung, which doesn't hide its pleasure after the European Parliament's February 11th vote to reject "spying on bank transfers" by […]

12 February 2010

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
Romania: Producer orders Sicilian style killings

Victims buried alive, corpses thrown in the Danube… this weekend's Romanian press looks back at a string of four murders perpetrated in mafioso – […]

18 January 2010

Presseurop
Evenimentul zilei
Netherlands: Snitch on sexual tourists online

"Imagine you are on holiday in a faraway country and you see a fellow tourist taking local children back to his hotel room? What can […]

14 January 2010

Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Italy: Knox a victim of "la bella figura"?

Guilty as charged? The case against Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of the killing of her English flatmate Meredith Kercher in the Italian city […]

10 December 2009

Presseurop
The Guardian
Terrorism: A Jackal for a nuclear power station

Paris is apparently prepared to hand over Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as “Carlos”, to the authorities in Venezuela, where he was born 60 years […]

3 December 2009

Presseurop
Lidové noviny
Germany: Chaotic opening to Demjanjuk trial

In what is probably the last great Holocaust trial to be held in Germany, John Demjanjuk, a former guard at the Sobibor Nazi death camp […]

1 December 2009

Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Portugal: Nothing to report on DNA register

In early 2008, the Portuguese government launched a DNA register to stock the profiles of thieves, murderers and sex offenders sentenced to more than three […]

17 November 2009

Presseurop
Diário de Notícias
Germany: No country for Islamophobes

On 11 November, the criminal court in Dresden found Alex Wiens guilty of murder, and ruled that he should serve the maximum possible sentence of […]

12 November 2009

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
International Justice: Charles Taylor - Trial and non-tribulations

The examination of Charles Taylor by the Sierra Leone Special Court (SLSC) begins today – on the premises of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in […]

10 November 2009

Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Belgium: Jails miss well behaved offenders

"Prisons marked by daily violence," headlines De Morgen. Overcrowding is one cause, but trade unions also believe that the increase in violence in Belgian prisons is […]

2 November 2009

Presseurop
De Morgen
Immigration: Rescuing boat people is no crime

It is not a crime to save human life. The sheer obviousness of the conclusion drawn on 7 October by a court in Agrigente, Sicily, […]

8 October 2009

Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
France: Magistrates, an endangered species

A report on the reform of French criminal law procedure, presented on 1 September to president Nicolas Sarkozy, recommends doing away with the examining magistracy […]

2 September 2009

Presseurop
Libération
Russia: Beslan victims turn to Europe

"Five years after the dramatic hostage taking in Beslan, victims' families are still waiting on aid promised by the Russian state," reports Süddeutsche Zeitung. On […]

1 September 2009

Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Belgium: Belgian judiciary scandal 'hushed up'

In Brussels, the affair is considered to be such a serious threat to Belgium's justice system that it has already been compared with the case […]

14 August 2009

Presseurop
La Libre Belgique
Czech Republic: Arsonists arrested, national honour restored

Police investigating a racist attack against a Roma family in Vítkov, in the eastern Czech Republic, have arrested 12 suspects. The nine men and three […]

14 August 2009

Presseurop
Lidové noviny
Austria: Court stands accused!

Leading with the front-page headline "Scandalous political corruption of justice," Kleine Zeitung reports on a court decision in July to close the "case of the moving signs" […]

13 August 2009

Presseurop
Kleine Zeitung
Human rights: Extradition in a fine mess

The 2002 European arrest was intended to facilitate extradition between EU members states as a response to the post 9/11 terror threat. With latest data suggesting that the bulk of extradition requests are for trivial offences, David Cronin in the Guardian argues that the system is "a shambles" that exacts a high human cost.

7 August 2009
The Guardian London
Belgium: Prison breaks and the Scandinavian solution

After two escapes in one month, Belgium's politicians are wondering how to counter an upsurge in the number of prison breaks. Over the last three […]

3 August 2009

Presseurop
De Standaard
War crimes: New age guru Karadzic “defended the bees”

In the 90’s, as Yugoslavia fell apart, Radovan Karadzic led the Serbs of Bosnia to declare their own republic. Aided by Slobodan Milosevic’”s government in […]

27 July 2009

Presseurop
The New York Times
Italy: Who really killed anti-mafia judges ?

On July 16, Caltanissetta's prosecutors reopened investigations into the killing of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. The attacks were originally blamed […]

24 July 2009

Presseurop
Panorama
FRANCE: Industrial espionage alive and hacking

“Competitive intelligence” is an increasingly widespread activity – and not only within the military-industrial complex. The French daily Libération profiles a current case in point: […]

24 July 2009

Presseurop
Libération
European Commission: Romania and Bulgaria get a few good marks

The European Commission’s annual report on justice reform in Romania and Bulgaria comes out on 22 July, reports România Libera. Brussels notes that “the Romanian […]

22 July 2009

Presseurop
România libera
United Kingdom: Crime, the best of British

The UK is Europe’s crime capital, clamours the Daily Telegraph. Analysis of figures from the European Commission show a 77% increase in murders, robberies, assaults […]

2 July 2009

Presseurop
The Daily Telegraph
United Kingdom: Crime, the best of British

The UK is Europe’s crime capital, clamours the Daily Telegraph. Analysis of figures from the European Commission show a 77% increase in murders, robberies, assaults […]

2 July 2009

Presseurop
The Daily Telegraph
Ireland: Journalist between a rock and a hard place

The traditionally conservative Irish Independent is defending the cause of journalist Suzanne Breen who recently interviewed members of the Real IRA, the dissident group responsible […]

15 June 2009

Presseurop
Irish Independent
Netherlands: Shell cuts deal with truth

Accused of complicity in the death of nine Nigerian militants ( including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa ) executed by the Nigerian government in 1995, Anglo-Dutch petroleum […]

11 June 2009

Presseurop
Trouw
Netherlands: Bad news, crime on the wane

The Dutch Ministry of Justice has announced that due to a chronic shortage of criminals it has been forced to close eight prisons. For the last few years, crime has fallen in the Netherlands, which isn’t all good news for some, observes columnist Bert Wagendorp.

28 May 2009
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VEDA on All talk and little action

The immigrants have to make an effort and the authorities have to help providing the opportunities. There is no point in playing the blame game. Failure to integrate will have a heavy cost. Once immigrants are granted asylum, society has to make an effort to facilitate integration.

Atlantis on Husby riots reveal profound failure

The European elections are the only truly democratic element of the EU. It is certainly not through abstaining that we will change the system.

Jeleg on ‘To the polls on Sunday May 25 2014’