1st Edition

Financial Crime and the Office of the European Public Prosecutor Protecting EU Financial Interests in a New Institutional Landscape

Edited By Celina Nowak Copyright 2026
186 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the realities of the functioning of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) along with the actual cooperation with other stakeholders in the EU and in the Member States. The protection of financial interests of the European Union is a Treaty obligation bearing equally on the Member States and the Union itself. In order to increase the effectiveness of the investigations... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction
Celina Nowak, Anna Rybarczyk

Chapter 2: Investigative Rules in the Fight against Organised Crime: Domestic Peculiarities and European Cooperation in Italian Criminal Procedure
Fabio Nicolicchia

Chapter 3: Vertical and Horizontal Cooperation in Countering Organised Fraud in the European Union: Experience of Lithuania
Gintaras Švedas

Chapter 4: Vertical and Horizontal Cooperation in Combatting Organized Fraud in the EU: German Perspective
Marc Engelhart

Chapter 5: Vertical and Horizontal Cooperation in Combatting Organized Fraud in Slovakia
Libor Klimek

Chapter 6: From National to International Cooperation in Combatting Organized Fraud: Current Situation in Romania
Sergiu Bogdan

Chapter 7: Protecting EU Financial Interests in a Non-Participating Member State : The Polish Perspective
Anna Rybarczyk, Paweł Dziekański

Chapter 8: In Lieu of Conclusions
Celina Nowak, Paweł Dziekański

Biography

Celina Nowak is the Director of and Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an experienced criminal law researcher and consultant with 20 years’ work experience.