15:00 Welcome note:
Rebecca Harms MEP, Co-President of the Green Group in the European Parliament
15:15 Judicial cooperation and procedural rights of suspects in the EU
Procedural rights of suspects: Access to a lawyer, pre-trial detention and legal aid
- Jan Albrecht MEP
- Jago Russell, Fair Trials International, London
Judicial cooperation: the European Investigation Order and the European Arrest Warrant
- Judith Sargentini MEP
- Professor Taru Spronken, University of Maastricht
Questions & Answers
16:15h: Substantive EU criminal law and organised crime in the EU
Organised crime as a challenge for EU criminal law
- Rui Tavares MEP
- Professor Didier Bigo, Sciences-Po, Paris and King's College, London
How to develop substantive norms to combat organised crime, particularly those undermining social and economic justice?
- Eva Joly MEP (tbc)
- Professor Helmut Satzger, University of Munich
Questions & Answers
17:15 Coffee break
17:35 Institutional aspects
Protection of financial Interests and the need for a European Public Prosecutor
- Green MEP (tbc)
- Dr Marianne Wade, University of Birmingham
- Dr Peter Csonka, European Commission, Brussels
Questions & Answers
18:10 Concluding remarks
Jan Philipp Albrecht MEP