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This text examines human trafficking from post-Soviet countries, exploring the full extent of the problem and discussing countermeasures, both local and at the global level, and considering the problem in all its aspects.

This article provides a case study of the scope of subsidiarity review exercised by the Swedish Riksdag within the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM). It takes its starting point in the theoretical debate on the scope of subsidiarity review reaching the conclusion that the Swedish case confirms both Kiiver's definition of the scope of the review to include legality and proportionality, and Jancic's more recent article arguing for a broader review to include substance besides the principle of legality and proportionality. The connection between issues concerning the scope of the review within the EWM and several of the arguments in favour of a reform of the EWM is that national parliaments are not apt to make legal assessments such as a strictly legal approach to the review would suggest. In light of this, the Swedish case is interesting taking into account that the Committee on the Constitution has the task to provide a yearly analysis of the review exercised by sectoral committees, including questions related to method and the outcome of the review on the EU-legislative process. The article provides a critical assessment of the role of the Committee on the Constitution within the Swedish scrutiny procedure, reaching the conclusion that the Committee's evaluation suffers several methodological weaknesses; weaknesses that do effect the impact and efficiency of the Swedish scrutiny process. The Swedish model for scrutiny of subsidiarity within the EWM combines a fully decentralised review by sectoral committees with the yearly 'helicopter perspective' offered by the Committee on the Constitution. The primary task of the Committee on the Constitution is to act as protector of decentralisation by identifying creeping competence overstretches. Taken together this could be a strong model of scrutiny within the EWM should the Committee on the Constitution, or whatever body is entrusted with the overall analysis, take is task to provide methodological guidance seriously. ; Nationella parlaments roll i EU:s lagstiftningsprocess: en komparativ studie av tillämpningen av subsidiaritetsprincipen

The subsidiarity early warning mechanism : three questions and a typology / Ian Cooper -- Reconstructing the early warning mechanism? / Jurgen Hettne -- Mapping out the procedural requirements for the early warning mechanism / Anna Wetter -- Interparliamentary cooperation between national parliaments / Bruno Dias Pinheiro -- Regional parliaments and the early warning system : an assessment and some suggestions for reform / Diane Fromage -- A new player in the multi-level parliamentary field? : cooperation and communication of regional parliaments in the post-Lisbon scenario / Karolina Boro?ska-Hryniewiecka -- Italian regional councils and the positive externalities of the early warning mechanism for national constitutional law / Cristina Fasone -- Belgian parliaments and the early warning system / Patricia Popelier and Werner Vandenbruwaene -- Similar but different : comparing the scrutiny of the principle of subsidiarity in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland / Anna Jonsson Cornell -- The scrutiny of the principle of subsidiarity in the procedures and reasoned opinions of the Italian chamber and senate / Nicola Lupo -- Speaking with one voice? the use of the early warning mechanism by the two houses of the French parliament / Angela Tacea -- Parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs by the UK parliament : the primacy of ministerial accountability / Adam Cygan -- Able and willing? early warning system and political dialogue in the -- Bundestag and the nationalrat / Katrin Auel -- Like two peas in a pod? the functioning of the early warning mechanism in the Czech Republic and Poland / Katarzyna Granat -- The trajectory of the early warning mechanism / Marco Goldoni and Anna Jonsson Cornell

"This is the fifth volume in the series Swedish Studies in European Law, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies. It focuses on EU criminal law and transnational police cooperation. Against the background of the most important changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in the area of criminal law and police cooperation, the book is divided into four main sections, with each section analyzing some specific challenges. The first section of the book includes a critical analysis of the boundaries of new criminal law competencies, as well as some more general challenges for EU criminal law. Specific focus is set on the lawmaking process. The second section deals with EU criminal law and fundamental rights, in particular the protection of personal data and individual privacy. It focuses on the implementation of EU law into national legal orders and the challenges that this process brings with it. The third section maps out specific challenges in transnational police cooperation - in particular, the important issue of the sharing of information between law enforcement agencies and its potential impact on the protection of fundamental rights. In the final section, the focus shifts toward networks, the horizontal agency, and multi-level cooperation in a wider sense within the area of freedom, security, and justice."--Bloomsbury Publishing