Dutch MPs take lead to weaken EU prosecutor plans
Dutch MPs are spearheading national efforts to weaken a European Commission proposal to set up an EU-wide public prosecutor (EPPO). Their envoy and national EPPO rapporteur is Ard van der Steur from the liberal VDD party. Tasked to mobilise allies from around the EU to reject the commission’s idea, Steur is seeking to pressure decision-makers in Brussels to accept an alternative vision for the office.
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And they are right! Isn't this the role of OLAF? Why does the Commission need to create another institution?
There is no such a thing as a European penal procedure code. The EU would have to write this first. And then, this should only enable to define which national prosecutor is competent for investigating.
So the Dutchs are right to try to prevent the EU from creating more and more institutions. We recall the European Arrest warrant, from a judicial point of view a catastrophe, and it has been suspended accordingly by the German constitutional court.
We have Europol, we have Eurojust and all those institutions have a severe problem of parliamentarian oversight. We are creating an administrative monster in Brussels without having the democratic legitimate institutions and sufficiently efficient to control all those bureaucrates.
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