Shifting Perspectives on the European Public Prosecutor's Office

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. General Perspectives on the EPPO: From the Outside and the Inside.- Chapter 2. Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO): Introductory Remarks.- Chapter 3. EPPO - Developments under the Presidency of The Netherlands.- Chapter 4. European Public Prosecutor's Office - A View on the State of Play and Perspectives from the European Parliament.- Part II. Scholarly Perspective on the EPPO: Constitutional, Regulatory and Institutional Issues.- Chapter 5. The Establishment of a European Public Prosecutor's Office: Between "Better Regulation" and Subsidiarity Concerns.- Chapter 6. The European Public Prosecutor's Office and Human Rights.- Chapter 7. A Blunt Weapon for the EPPO? The Long Story of the (Progressively Stifled) Directive on the Protection of the Union's Financial Interests By Means of Criminal Law.- Chapter 8. Ancillary Crimes and Ne Bis in Idem.- Chapter 9. Towards an Inconsistent European Regime of Cross-Border Evidence: EPPO Investigationsand the European Investigation Order.- Chapter 10. Forum Choice and Judicial Review Under the EPPO's Legislative Framework.- Chapter 11. Relations Between the EPPO and Eurojust - Still a Privileged Partnership?.- Part III. Summa Summarum: Assessing EPPO's Raison d' tre in the Light of the Debates.- Annex 1. EPPO's Raison d' tre: The Challenge of the Insertion of an EU Body in Procedures Mainly Governed by National Law.- Annex 2. The European Public Prosecutor's Office: A Chronicle of a Failure Foreseen. Appendix.

Dr. Willem Geelhoed is Assistant professor in criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Drs. Leendert H. Erkelens and Prof. Mr. Arjen W.H. Meij are both Visiting Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague in The Netherlands, while the latter is also Honorary Professor at the University of Luxembourg.