Jahresbericht ELSA-Deutschland e.V. 2007/2008 - ELSA Germany

ought his view of justice cooperation of his country. Very helpful
was the witness of Alla Kuznetsova from Estonia: she spoke
about the cooperation between Estonian and Finnish Police to
stop the drug traffic between Finland and Estonia. We discussed
the problems of the communication between the many law enforcement
agencies that are in different countries and about the
too much elementary information system we have. By the end
of the first workshop all the participants agreed that a Common
European Criminal Procedure would be possible and it would
get its fundaments from the European Union Treaty. Cooperation
between member states is really important and it could be
easily reached if the European Commission announced regulations
on the mutual legal assistance and the strategies to prevent
international crimes. We got aware of all the means the EU has,
and their lack of perfect efficiency due to the lack to harmonization
on security matters. The morning after we attended Prof.
Dr. Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi’s speech (University of Thessaloniki)
on „the Criminal Procedure in the EU: Common Principles as
the basis for a Transnational Crime Control“, followed by the
Panel discussion on the benefits and risks of a Common European
Criminal Procedure between Prof. Dr. Silvia Allegrezza
(University of Bologna), Prof. Dr. Joanna Berata Banach Gutierrez
(University of Opole), Prof. Dr. Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi (University
of Thessaloniki), Prof. Dr. Cezary Kulesza (University of
Bialystok), Michael Rosenthal (Attorney-at-law, Karlsruhe), with
the moderation of Anne Schneider (University of Muenster). The
discussion was very interesting: Professors of different age, with
experiences and from different countries came to confront on
such difficult and important arguments. Prof. Kaiafa-Gbandi
spoke about the document on the Common European Criminal
Procedure and Harmonization Practices, she elaborated on other
professors. But it looked like some speakers did not like the idea,
as the long and hard iter of those documents, they rather agreed
that the base of a Common European Criminal Procedure is the
EU Treaty. She answered that we should be patient as it is only
a matter of time. On the opposite Prof. Kulesza had a very conservative
position: he affirms that the Polish Law system never
would accept a Criminal Procedure created by EU laws. Anyway,
the Moderator had a job to do!
By the end of the discussion we were all very tired, but with a
sight of optimism about Common Security strategy and with
awareness that the European Union is a little too “young” to
already think about a Common Criminal Procedure. In the af-
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