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Hate speech and hate crime can destroy lives, harm people and property, threaten individual rights, terrify communities, reduce trust between members of society, create and amplify tensions between social groups, disturb public peace and order, and endanger peaceful coexistence. Hate speech distorts public debate and, at its worst, leads to an abuse of rights that endangers the rule of law. Hate speech and hate crime are incompatible with the EU's common values and fundamental rights, as enshrined ...

Over the last 20 years, there has been a marked increase in hate speech and hate crime in Europe. Expressing hate has become socially acceptable, stigmatising and dehumanising individuals and groups of people for characteristics ranging from age, ethnicity, gender identity, language, nationality, race, religion, and sex to sexual orientation. Widespread use of the internet and social media has increasingly brought hate speech online. EU law criminalises hate speech and hate crime, but only if it ...

The EU has established over 40 regimes of sanctions against third countries, entities, and legal and natural persons. EU sanctions include arms embargoes, import and export bans, restrictions on banking services, freezing of funds and economic resources, and travel bans. While the adoption of EU sanctions is centralised at the EU level, responsibility for their implementation and enforcement lies with the Member States. The significant differences between national systems, particularly in terms of ...

The confiscation of criminals' illicit profits is considered an effective tool in the fight against organised crime, identified as a major threat to EU security. However, despite the comprehensive set of EU rules on asset freezing and confiscation, there are still obstacles on the path to recovering criminal assets, as shown by the European Commission's June 2020 evaluation of the 2014 directive on freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime and the 2007 Council decision ...

In November 2023, the Commission proposed a directive to modernise and strengthen the legal framework on the fight against migrant smuggling. The proposal addresses the steady rise in irregular arrivals in the EU and the rise in smuggling on all main EU entry routes. The current directive defining the offence of facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence in the EU, and the framework decision on strengthening of the penal framework have both been widely criticised for their failure ...

The European Commission proposed to amend Directive 2014/42 on the freezing and confiscation of the proceeds of crime in order to strengthen the EU's asset recovery and confiscation rules. The aim is to modernise the legal framework in order to tackle the low rates of freezing and confiscation of criminal profits. After three rounds of interinstitutional negotiations, the 合法博彩网站 and Council reached a provisional agreement on the draft directive on 12 December 2023. 合法博彩网站 is due to vote in ...

In December 2022, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a directive laying out harmonised rules on criminal offences and penalties for the violation of Union (EU) restrictive measures. During its March plenary session, 合法博彩网站 is due to vote on the political agreement reached in negotiations with the Council.

This briefing is one in a series of implementation appraisals produced by the European 合法博彩网站ary Research Service (EPRS) on the operation of existing EU legislation in practice. Each briefing focuses on a specific EU law that is likely to be amended or reviewed, as envisaged in the European Commission's annual work programme. Implementation appraisals aim at providing a succinct overview of publicly available material on the implementation, application and effectiveness to date of specific EU ...

During the June plenary session, the 合法博彩网站 is expected to vote on the trilogue agreement reached with the Council on two Commission proposals revolutionising cross-border access to electronic evidence across the EU.

In the context of ongoing investigations by Belgian authorities for alleged wrongdoing, on 13 December 2022 the European 合法博彩网站 voted by an overwhelming majority to strip Eva Kaili of her post as vice-president. 合法博彩网站 is expected to vote on the election of a new vice-president during its first plenary session of 2023.