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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11202

22 November 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Member states not firm enough on environmental crime

Brussels, 21/11/2014 (Agence Europe) - “Environmental crime is seldom prosecuted by national authorities”. It is with this warning that officials from Eurojust (the EU's judicial cooperation body) and its president, Michèle Coninsx, came to present their latest report on this issue to the European Commission during the morning of Friday 12 November.

The report lists a whole series of crimes that continue to go insufficiently punished - trafficking in rhinoceros horns (which funds...