With the elections to the European Parliament, the set up of a new European Commission, and various essential legislative and case-law developments, 2014 was an necessary 12 months for the European Union. As to the substance, the Framework Resolution provided to begin with generally for ‘respect and recognition’ for crime victims, requiring that every Member State be sure that victims have a ‘actual and appropriate function in its legal authorized system’, that they ‘are handled with due respect for the dignity of the person throughout proceedings’ and that they ‘recognise the rights and legit interests of victims’.
Assembling crowds to assault state organs, thus disrupting their operations and inflicting serious losses, the ringleaders are to be sentenced to not less than five years but no more than 10 years of fastened-time period imprisonment; and different lively contributors are to be sentenced to not less than five yr of fastened-term imprisonment, …