A prisoner serving a custodial sentence in two different member states may only benefit from the rules on reducing a sentence under the law of the State in which he or she is currently serving, according to the Court of Justice of the EU.
This case (C-554/14) concerns a Bulgarian prisoner sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in Denmark for aggravated robbery and murder. Before his transfer to Bulgaria to finish his sentence, he spent one year and nine months in a Danish prison, where he...