Commission Communication: Towards a reasonable use of criminal law
A Press Release by the European Commission explicitly mentions the Manifesto on European Criminal Policy, drafted by the ECPI, as the background for the new strategy „Towards a reasonable use of criminl law“. In an important Communication the Commission sets out the conditions under which the Union and Member States can work together to put in place a coherent and consistent EU criminal policy as demanded by the ECPI.
Conference (Strasbourg, France) on European Criminal Policy
On Thursday, 25th November 2010 an international conference with the title „What Principles for a European Criminal Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon“ took place in Strasbourg (France). The conference was organised by the Centre de Droit Privé Fondamental (CDPF)…
In the News: A Review of the Manifesto in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung by Prof. Dr. F.-C. Schroeder
Prof. Dr. F.-C. Schroeder welcomed the Manifesto for European Criminal Policy and discussed it in his review for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major German newspaper. The article is available in German only and can be downloaded here.
Welcome!
Welcome to the project website of the European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI). The ECPI is devoted to contributing to a coherent criminal policy at the level of the European Union. This international group of scholars aims to promote the respect for fundamental legal principles such as the principles of legality, proportionality, subsidiarity or coherence, the principle of guilt or the rule of law and to individual rights by analysing present and proposed legislation and . Please feel free to find out more about us and our mission, to read our Manifesto or to explore other related past and present work. We would also like you to contribute to our project by sharing your ideas of how to devise a criminal policy for Europe.