Rather than extraditing an EU national to a non-EU country, the member state’s authorities should brief the member state of origin to ensure it has the option of issuing a European arrest warrant in order to pursue investigations, explained the European Court of Justice in a ruling issued on Tuesday 6 September.
The case in question (C-182/15) concerns the relation between two individual rights: that granted by some member states to their nationals whereby they will not be extradited...