The fight against human trafficking in the EU: the challenges to cross-border criminal justice cooperation

The fight against human trafficking presents a number of challenges to the European Union. The multilateral dimension of the cases complicates the action of national authorities and results in limited, partial manhunts and criminal prosecutions that perpetuate the impunity of these crimes. Faced with this problem, the EU has committed to an integrated approach to investigations, which requires exploration of the potential for criminal justice cooperation, an area in which Eurojust, the EU’s criminal justice cooperation unit, plays an important role