EU-China criminal cooperation

When: Thursday, July 6, 2023, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: University Foundation, Room D,Rue d'Egmont, Bruxelles

This event focuses on the challenges for EU-China judicial cooperation in criminal matters with a particular focus on extradition.

Within and beyond the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, China has increasing needs in terms of judicial cooperation in both civil and criminal matters with third jurisdictions. This includes the mutual recognition of judgements, transfer of documents and evidence, mutual legal assistance, and extradition.

This policy roundtable will focus on the challenges for EU-China judicial cooperation in criminal matters with a particular focus on extradition. It will also discuss other aspects of China’s global law enforcement drive (i.e. establishment of police station overseas) as well as their implications for the transnational expansion of control and repression by the Party State.

Panel discussion on EU-China cooperation

This panel will bring together academics, practitioners, and civil society organisations with the aim to discuss:

1. The current stance of EU Member States towards judicial cooperation with the People's Republic of China
2. How extradition litigation has recently materialised in Europe and beyond
3. The policy challenges that emerge out of new avenues for contestation of human rights in the context of EU-China relations.

Format for the event

09:30am (CEST): Registration

10:00am (CEST): Panel debate

• Politics and Law of EU-China Criminal Justice Cooperation by Dr Matthieu Burnay (Queen Mary University of London)
• Extraditions and its Role in China's Long-Arm Policing Abroad by Mr Peter Dahlin (Safeguard Defenders)
• How (not) to Counter Transnational Repression: a Liberal Analysis by Professor Eva Pils (King’s College London)
• The Chinese Criminal Justice and the Concept of Fair Trial by Dr Grace Mou (School of Oriental and African Studies).