Title: POLICE COOPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION –ORIGINS, PRESENT STATUS AND CHALLENGES
Abstract: The article lays ground for a legal analysis of the police cooperation between EU Member States, i.e. its origins in the pillar structure established in the Maastricht Treaty and present-day features based on the Lisbon Treaty, as well as their effect in practice.
In the first part of the article, the institutional setting of the former treaty structure is depicted, in particular in respect of the EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) policy, which was regulated through the third pillar of the Maastricht treaty and based on intergovernmental decision-making process. Furthermore, in the second part, the emphasis is put on the incorporation process of the aforementioned third pillar and the “remodelling” of the EU architecture with the aim of ensuring closer cooperation through supranational decision making, which was undertaken in the Lisbon Treaty. The third part deals with the effects of the institutional dialogue set up on the basis of the Treaties taht are in force, in particular with the Lisbon Treaty’s Police Cooperation Policy, and explores common goals of Member States in the most recent political and institutional setting. Finally, aside from dealing with the question of the present distribution of powers among EU institutions and Member states that involves greater involvement of the EU Parliament in all decisions making regarding police cooperation, our article touches upon issues such as the importance of EUROPOL for the EU common goals and shared interests in the areas of police and security policies which are, at the same time, the policies of utmost national interest to each Member State. We argue that further improvement is needed, especially when it comes to better and close cooperation in practice, not only within EU Member States, but also with neighbourhood and accessing states.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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