Every year the UK government spends billions of pounds purchasing goods, works and services that are vital to growth, development, health and social welfare. Performed well, public procurement helps a government to nurture competition, save money, and provide better public services. These...

Governments around the world spend an estimated $9.5 trillion of public money purchasing goods and services each year (public procurement). Not only does this represent a significant proportion of government expenditure (29.1 percent on average in OECD countries) and of total gross domestic...

At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...

The article presents the different jurisprudential opinions, illustrated with extracts from courts decisions, regarding the possibility of sentencing for concurrent criminal offences - of forgery and of fraud affecting the European Union's financial interests provided by Article 181 of Law no....

We present the attempt of finding association between crime level and prison population across European countries. We propose observation that Central and Eastern European countries distinctly differ from the rest of Europe. Building on this we offer justification that is methodologically based...

Siendo una nota característica de la UE su configuración como sistema casi federal que se acompaña de técnicas de cooperación avanzadas, el estudio empírico de los modelos de integración existentes en algunos Estados de corte federal puede ser de gran ayuda como experiencia de aprendizaje...

The harmonization of criminal law and procedure is still in its infancy within European Union law and so the relationship between the commercial framework of intellectual property and the criminal enforcement of its standards remains an unsettled and unsettling adolescence. The Proposal for a...

Could Brexit be void, and article 50 notification annulled, because of illegality and irregularity in the vote? This paper discusses the implications of three major reports issued in July 2018. First, the Electoral Commission found that ‘Vote Leave' officials were guilty of criminal offences...