The attribution of cross-border operational powers such as the responsibility for coordi
nating cross-border police operations must, on the other hand, for reasons inter alia of constitutional democracy, be taken out of the intergovernmental context and moved in the direction of a Community solution to the problem, with a European
public prosecutor's office, which must, in a framework of a democratic chain of legitimation and hence with the possibility of parliamentary controls, be attached to the Commission, which would for its part b
...[+++]e answerable to the European Parliament.
En revanche, si on transfère à Europol des compétences en matière de coordination transfrontalière des opérations de police, on sort de la simple coopération et la création d'un parquet communautaire s'impose. Pour respecter la légitimité démocratique et la possibilité de contrôle parlementaire, il faut que ce parquet européen dépende de la Commission, qui doit être elle-même responsable devant le Parlement européen.