The Right to Financial Compensation of Victims of Crimes Committed on the Territory of the European Union

Mihaela Palade-Ropotan

Mihaela Palade-Ropotan Dunarea de Jos University of Galati

Keywords: transnational crimes; financial compensation of victims; nationals; EU legislation; judicial cooperation

Abstract

Situations such as traveling with ease outside the borders of the country of residence, and the increase in transnational crime and the proportional increase in the number of victims of this type of crime, it was necessary to build a way of cooperation between the EU states in order to facilitate the procedure for obtaining fair financial compensation for these victims. Even if the procedure does not prove to be extremely transparent and well-known at the level of the European Union countries, constant efforts are being made to increase the level of legal aid granted to this type of victim, the public institutions of the EU states being actively involved in the process.

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