MIGRANTS SMUGGLING EUROPEAN PHENOMENON OR CRIME?

Abstract

Because, in the context of the crisis of illegal migration in Europe, the notion of migrants smuggling is increasingly used, especially in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters between romanian and other member states judicial authorities, we intend to determine whether this term is regulated as an independent crime or whether it is just the name of a new phenomenon at european level. At the same time, we try cu establish whether the notion of migrants smuggling is part of smuggling or migrants trafficking crime.