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

Abstract

Starting from situations generated in reality by the easy possibility of traveling outside the borders of the country of residence, respectively by 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 to facilitate the procedure for obtaining fair financial compensation by these victims. Even if the procedure does not prove to be extremely transparent and well-known at the level of the EU countries, constant efforts are 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.