ABSTRACT
Attempts among European Union (EU) member states to formulate a common approach to such matters as transnational crime cannot disguise the wide range of problems and policy responses across the continent. Although the EU might enhance the prospect of cohesive European policy on trade, security, and other interregional concerns, the existence of a European perspective on just about anything is, for the most part, an illusion. Yet for the purpose of comparison with the Western Hemisphere it is possible to identify a particularly European outlook on transnational crime which, although perhaps clearly perceptible only in contrast to U.S. attitudes, is no less powerful for that.
