The future of police and judicial cooperation in the European Union / edited by Cyrille Fijnaut and Jannemieke Ouwerkerk.

Preliminary Material / C.J. Fijnaut and J. Ouwerkerk -- General Introduction / Cyrille Fijnaut -- Opening Speech On The Future Of Police And Judicial Cooperation In The European Union / Ernst Hirsch Ballin -- Police And Judicial Cooperation Between The European Union Member States. Results And Prospects / Sabine Gless -- The Integration Of Police And Judicial Cooperation In Criminal Matters Into EU External Relations. Achievements And Problems / Jörg Monar -- Police Cooperation In The Dutch Border Areas / Toine Spapens -- Cooperation Among Traffic Police Departments In The European Union / Ad Hellemons -- European Police Cooperation In The Future Legal Framework Of The European Union / Verena Murschetz -- Mutual Assistance Between Belgium, France, Germany And The Netherlands. A Comparative Analysis Of Possibilities And Difficulties / Dirk Van Daele -- The Future Of Mutual Assistance Conventions In The European Union / Vincenzo Militello and Annalisa Mangiaracina -- Legal Assistance In The Context Of The International Criminal Court / Christophe Paulussen -- The Potential Of Mutual Recognition As A Leading Policy Principle / Caroline Morgan -- How Far Can We Go In Applying The Principle Of Mutual Recognition? / Gert Vermeulen -- Judicial Cooperation In Criminal Matters. A Swiss Approach / Jannemieke Ouwerkerk -- The Application Of The European Arrest Warrant In The European Union. A General Assessment / Mar Jimeno-Bulnes -- The European Arrest Warrant. Better Than A Chaos Of Conventions? / Otto Lagodny -- Functions And Aims Of Harmonisation After The Lisbon Treaty. A European Perspective / Matthias Borgers -- Harmonisation Of Criminal Procedure On The Basis Of Common Principles. The EU’s Challenge For Rule-Of-Law Transnational Crime Control / Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi -- List Of Authors / C.J. Fijnaut and J. Ouwerkerk -- Index / C.J. Fijnaut and J. Ouwerkerk.

Since the early 1990s, cross-border police and judicial cooperation has become a very important domain of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty – if accepted by all the Member States – will certainly be a major stimulus to its further development in the field of internal security as well as in the field of external policy. In any event, the recent proposal for a new third comprehensive policy programme with regard to the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice – the so-called Stockholm Programme – foreshadows some of the changes the Brussels institutions and the Member States would like to embrace in the coming years. This book contains the contributions of scholars and practitioners to a conference on the future of police and judicial cooperation in the European Union that took place in November 2008 at Tilburg University. Referring to what has been achieved in this domain since the Treaty of Maastricht, these papers not only assess the proposals that have been put forward in successive policy documents relating to the Stockholm Programme, but they also pinpoint to the ongoing problems in the theory and practice of police and judicial cooperation within the European Union and to the ways in which these questions could best be solved.