This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives. The first concerns
fundamental rights following the adoption of the directives that have progressively reinforced
the cornerstone of procedural rights of suspects and defendants in national criminal
proceedings in the EU member states so as to facilitate judicial cooperation. The second
perspective relates to transnational criminal investigations and proceedings which are seen as
a cross section of the current state of judicial cooperation in the area of freedom security
and justice with the related issues of efficiency coordination settlement of conflicts of
jurisdiction and guarantees. The third perspective concerns the development of a supranational
justice system in the light of the recently established European Public Prosecutor¿s Office
whose European judicial nature still coexists with strong national components.
