Project website IPA2017 launched On 4 and 5 October 2018, the entire project team of the IPA2017 project ‘Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans’ met in The Hague for a team meeting. During this meeting, cooperation within the so-called Embedded Country Teams...
On 26 September 2018, CILC presented to INLUCC (Instance Nationale de Lutte Contre la Corruption) and the Dutch Embassy in Tunis the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the baseline study. INLUCC operates in a volatile environment and during the...
On September 5th 2018, a reporter from Magnolia-TV in Ukraine interviewed CILC project manager Lino Brosius about the Dutch-Ukrainian Matra project on probation and alternative sanctions, the role of probation in the criminal justice system, and the benefits of...
The Netherlands has a strong interest in international cooperation in the fight against terrorism, organized crime and cybercrime. That is why various Dutch partner institutions are committed to strengthening the justice sector and security structures abroad. Dutch...
One of the biggest drug seizures in recent history was unveiled thanks to the EU IPA2017 (Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance) funded project “Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans”. The successful joint operation of the Montenegrin and...
The 2018 Shiraka Training on Legislation took place between 28 June to 6 July 2018. Participants from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Sudan, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The diversity facilitated great richness...
by Manon Tiessink ‘We are like one family’ said Mr. Sunarto, Vice Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung), during his visit to the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in the Hague. He and eight other justices and assistants were invited by the...
By Lino Brosius How do you design a supervision action plan together with a probation client? How do you combine control and guidance to keep offenders on the right track? Last week CILC and CJS carried out an assessment to determine the nature of supervision work in...
By Lino Brosius On 19 and 20 June 2018 a round table on probation information and tailored sanctioning for Ukrainian public prosecutors and judges took place in Kiev. CILC and CJS organised this two-day meeting together with the Ukrainian probation service, which...
by Willem van Nieuwkerk Barely noticed amid the European Union’s political debates over Brexit, migration and the fight against terrorism, a well thought-out reform agenda has been followed in the Republic of Albania, showing that it is possible to seed and grow...
On 11 June 2018, the IPA2017 project ‘Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans’ supported the Montenegrin prosecution office in organizing the conference ‘Eurojust and cooperation with third states: experiences and challenges in the Western Balkans countries’....
On 13 June 2018, the official kick-off of the EURALIUS V project took place in Tirana. The EURALIUS mission is a broad justice reform mission to assist the Albanian authorities in the process of judicial reform. Whereas the previous phase of EURALIUS focused on the...
by Rodica Malancea Diagnosis and advice, writing pre-trial reports and designing tailored supervision plans were among the topics of this study visit from 13 until 16 June 2018 of five professionals from the Moldovan National Probation Inspectorate. The Moldovan...
From 28 May to 1 June 2018, 7 investigators, legal assistants and the Special Public Prosecutor, Ms. Katica Janeva, of Macedonia’s Special Public Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) came to the Hague for a study visit. The visit took place in the framework of the project...
Reforms of the justice system in the Republic of Albania were described as “revolutionary” and “courageous” by Dutch experts participating in a roundtable discussion in The Hague. The Embassy of Albania to the Netherlands and the Center for International Legal...
