The Europeanisation of criminal law in the member states

Abstract

The authors of the article bring forward hypothesis that EU law influences the national criminal law of the Member States and this impact both accepting new treaties and analyzing Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice increases. The authors discuss if there is the possibility of direct application of EU norms in criminal law, and how real is the idea of the common criminal code. The research is done by making the historic and comparative analysis of EC and EU treaties and practical significance of adequate norms analyzing the Jurisprudence of European Court of Justice