In an interview given to RAI TV on February 12, 1991, the Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone stated: “This is not a personal fight between us and the Mafia. If only people could understand that this should be a commitment – that is extraordinary in its ordinariness – by every one of us, with regard to a phenomenon that is unworthy of a civil country, then things would certainly be much better.” Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were assassinated on May 23 and July 19, 1992 because they committed their lives to fighting injustice in the way it penetrates everyday life. These dates are commemorated in Italy and in Europe as symbolic of the fight for truth and justice. The system of inquiry Falcone set up, known today as the ‘Falcone method’, is summed up by the slogan ‘Follow the money’. It consists of tracing sums of money across national and international banks, including by examining current and bearer accounts, in order to identify suspect movement of financial capital and trace its sources. This method has given rise to the all-important anti-mafia law known as ‘416bis’. There is currently a strong lobby for the EU to extend this law across all its member countries. It is...