The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU gives the European Parliament and the EU Council the option to adopt common rules on criminal offences in “areas of particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension”. Terrorism, trafficking in human beings, arms trafficking, money laundering, corruption, and computer crime are currently considered as such.
This list may soon be extended to include hate speech and hate crimes. This is at least the wish expressed by Ursula von der Leyen in...