A member state refusing to execute a European arrest warrant must formally undertake to execute the sentence, as the primary objective is to avoid the wanted person going unpunished, Advocate General Yves Bot told the Court of Justice of the EU on Wednesday 15 February.
This case (C-579/15) concerns a Polish national sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Poland and who was the subject of a European arrest warrant. He was found in the Netherlands, but the authorities of the country refused to...