In September 2020, President von der Leyen announced the Commission’s intention to propose to extend the list of EU crimes or Eurocrimes to all forms of hate crime and hate speech, as later reflected in the Commission Work Programme 2021. The article first examines the need for such action at EU level, highlighting also certain shortcomings with existing regulation of hate crime and hate speech across the EU. Next, it raises a few additional challenges, relating to the regulation of the freedom of expression in view of the historical experience in some EU countries, the criminal offence element of public order violation or endangerment, and the harm-offence distinction. It then inspects whether specific conditions for EU action under Article 83(1) TFEU can be satisfied by the proposed area(s) of crime, not only from the perspective of a textual legal analysis but also drawing where appropriate on relevant empirical data. While acknowledging the somewhat controversial topic of regulation in the already sensitive field of EU criminal law as well as certain clear political hurdles linked with the procedural aspects of enlarging the EU crimes’ list, it is submitted that the mentioned crimes and their regulation raise legitimate concerns that warrant the proposed legislative action at EU level.

2020 年 9 月，冯德莱恩主席宣布，委员会打​​算提议将欧盟犯罪或欧洲犯罪清单扩大到所有形式的仇恨犯罪和仇恨言论，这一点随后反映在委员会 2021 年工作计划中。本文首先探讨了欧盟层面的此类行动，也凸显了整个欧盟现有仇恨犯罪和仇恨言论监管的某些缺陷。其次，根据一些欧盟国家的历史经验，它提出了一些额外的挑战，涉及言论自由的监管、违反或危害公共秩序的刑事犯罪要素以及伤害与犯罪的区别。然后，不仅从文本法律分析的角度，而且在适当的情况下借鉴相关经验数据，检查拟议的犯罪领域是否可以满足 TFEU 第 83(1) 条规定的欧盟行动的具体条件。虽然承认在欧盟刑法这个已经敏感的领域中存在一些有争议的监管话题，以及与扩大欧盟犯罪清单的程序方面相关的某些明显的政治障碍，但认为上述犯罪及其监管引起了合理的关注需要在欧盟层面采取拟议的立法行动。