Lieber Hasso

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• Checks and Balances: Dividing the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security in two – an Interior and a Justice branch

  29 April 2008
  The areas of justice and the interior (home affairs) are becoming ever more important in the European Commission. In most of the EU’s member states, the ministries of justice and the interior are separate. This is not just a question of tradition; it is rather the notion of checks and balances that speaks in favour of this separation.