This special issue aims to investigate the regulatory challenges facing the
EU with regard to security governance in the broad area of the fight against
financial crimes and by adopting a wider outlook on how to map and
understand these phenomena in their salient contexts. In recent years,
security as a key word can be witnessed as increasingly penetrating policies
on a national, international, and supranational level. This development is
also visible in EU policies, inter alia in the EU's policy concerning the
area of freedom, security, and justice (AFSJ). Coupling the word security to
the concept of governance in the somewhat thought-provoking phrase “security
governance” prominently cements its position in the entirety of processes
and mechanisms that steer people as well as corporations or markets.
Security in the EU internal context concerns to a great extent the fight
against terrorism and its financing as well as the policing of EU borders.
Security in this regard concerns the structure of EU law and how it can be
justified at the macro-level.