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25 Eur. J. Crime Crim. L. & Crim. Just. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/eccc25 and id is 1 raw text is: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CRIME, CRIMINAL LAW AND BRILL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 25 (2017) 1-10 NIJ HOFF brill.com/ecd Editorial All 'bout the Money? On the Division of Costs in the Context of EU CriminalJustice Cooperation and the Potential Impact on the Safeguarding of EU Defence Rights Jannemieke Ouwerkerk Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden University, P.o. Box 9520, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands j.w. ouwerkerk@law.leidenuniv.ni I Introduction Last year, in her Editorial for Volume 24, Issue 2-3 of this Journal, Estella Baker demanded attention for the financial impact of the European Union's criminal justice activities. She provided several examples to illustrate the (potential) financial costs involved in the application of EU legislation in the criminal jus- tice sphere (such as mutual recognition instruments and directives on proce- dural rights). In order to enhance our understanding of the impact of the EU'S activities in criminal matters, Baker suggests an increased (academic) focus on the issue of financial costs such activities may have. Baker is right in that the seemingly trivial issue of money has so far been neglected in (EU) criminal law scholarship and I fully agree with her that the issue deserves more attention.2 This editorial answers Baker's call in that it i E. Baker, 'What Price CriminalJustice in the EU?, 24EuropeanJournalof Crime, CriminalLaw and CriminalJustice (2016) 95-105. 2 The relevance of this issue already emerged from my comparative legal research on crimi- nal justice cooperation systems in federations (Switzerland and the USA) versus the Euro- pean Union, see J. Ouwerkerk, Quid Pro Quo? A comparative law perspective on the mutual © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2017 DOI 10.1163/15718174-25012103

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