The Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Jean Richard de la Tour, on 11 February, published a non-binding opinion on the compatibility of Bulgarian European Arrest Warrants with EU law. In AG de la Tour’s opinion, the procedure for issuing and challenging Bulgarian European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) in […]
Recent legislative developments in Poland have called into question the independence of the judiciary. In response to this, in September 2020, Dutch courts suspended extradition of requested persons to Poland and referred a question to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) seeking clarification as to whether systemic or generalised deficiencies in a Member […]
The Court of Justice delivered two judgments in May 2019 which considered whether the Public Prosecutors’ Offices of Member States fell within the definition of an “issuing judicial authority” for the purposes of the EAW Framework Decision. The cases considered the position of the prosecuting authorities of Germany and Lithuania. In deciding those cases the […]
A question was referred to the CJEU from the Court of Appeal of Belgium in respect of an EAW. In 2018, an EAW was issued by the National High Court of Spain in respect of a rapper who had been convicted in 2012 and 2013 of the offence of glorification of terrorism and the humiliation […]
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