Brussels explores creation of 'EU public prosecutor'

EU Observer ^ | 2012.06.05 @ 07:59 | Nikolaj Nielsen

[Olog-hai]

MEPs on the recently established anti-mafia committee and the European Commission have revived talk of creating an EU public prosecutor's office.

French center-right deputy Veronique Mathieu—among others—proposed the initiative at a meeting of the anti-crime body in the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday (4 June).

EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström said it would be a "good idea," but added that it needs wider political backing.

A parliament spokesman said that several member states are against it as things stand.

The new EU office was first mooted in a comission study 12 years ago.

It got a legal footing in the Lisbon Treaty, which says a group of nine or more member states can create it inside Eurojust, the EU's joint judicial body in The Hague.

The commission's website says it "would be responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to justice those who damage assets managed by or on behalf of the EU."

The office "would also exercise the functions of prosecutor in the competent courts of the EU countries, in relation to such offenses." …

[Olog-hai]

Doesn't matter that several member states are against the creation of a European Union "attorney general" of sorts (but with far greater powers than in the USA). They just roll right over everyone and institute what they want to institute.

Also take note of their fondness for "Newspeak"-like terms . . . "Europarl" (for the European Parliament), "Eurojust", "Europol", "SitCen" (for the European Union Joint Situation Center), ad nauseam . . .

[camle]

don’t they mean “Grand Inquisitor?”

[cartan]

The should call it the Vyshinsky Office…