Brussels, 29/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - A restriction of a person's freedom of movement, such as electronic monitoring, cannot necessarily be deemed equivalent to depriving that person of their liberty, the Court of Justice of the EU found on Thursday 28 July, in the framework of a case relating to the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between member states.
This case (C-294/16 PPU) concerns a Polish national who was arrested in the United Kingdom after Poland issued a...