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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.