Rebalancing Judicial Protection in Criminal Matters after Lisbon and Stockholm

While EU measures related to criminal and security law have been adopted for the past 20 years, the legal framework of the Treaty of Lisbon and the political impetus behind the Stockholm Programme have given them a new direction. This chapter explores the basis of protection of fundamental rights enshrined in Title V, Chapter 4 of the TFEU entitled ‘Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters and the Stockholm Programme’. This analysis is all the more important in the light of the new legal status attributed to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU’s prospective accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).