"Ubisocietas, ibiius," a well-known Latin aphorism pronounces: wherever there is life in society, there is the Right.

Over the last few years, the European Union has created a "European Justice Area" based on the adoption of measures to advance judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

The traditional structure available to countries to investigate crimes has to change-

Crisis in the European Union due to the judicial disagreements of the member countries?

Who remembers the Pinochet indictment? The one in which -then- Magistrate Baltasar Garzón Real had tried to obtain his extradition.

Tthe countries presented themselves as closed fortresses, protected by the principle of non-interference.

The presence of Catalonian politicians fleeing from justice and installed in member countries of the EU has generated unprecedented political and judicial unrest.

The fight against corruption has cost the illustrious Peruvian jurist José Ugaz more than one problem. It is not easy to oppose the political and economic powers.

We can say that there is a globalisation of corruption. This problem is so old that it already existed in ancient civilizations.

Corruption is a cancer for the rule of law and development.

The reasons for concern about corruption in the EU have only increased over these years.

It may seem, at a distance, that Euskadi is a kind of idyllic oasis in the arid landscape of corruption surrounding us.

Corruption is not just an ethical issue that can be forgiven through the ballot box.