How effective are the legal mechanisms to combat crimes affecting the EU budget in relation to non-participating EU Member States of the EPPO?

Abstract

Through analyzing corruption tendencies, efforts to combat corruption, as wel as the political decision making of non-participating Member States, it is clarified why non-participating EU Member States do not participate in the EPPO. The reasearch will also focus on the EPPO´s role in the protection and defence of the EU financial interests within the interinstitutional collaboration with the EU institutions in charge of combatting financial crimes, such as Eurojust, Europol, OLAF, in comparison to the legal framework of the EPPO. This will also aid in understanding how sucesfull their efforts to combat crimes affecting EU’s financial interests will be. Moreover, in the case of non-participating EU Member states, specifically Hungary and Poland, an analysis is provided for how their failure to adequatelly ensure the combatting of crimes affecting the EU’s financial interests, is tied to the rule of law, and what the EU is doing to prevent this.