It is not possible for a member state to refuse implementation of a European arrest warrant when this refusal leads to the impunity of the person being pursued, explained the European Court of Justice in the ruling made on Thursday 29 June (C-579/15).
In 2007, Mr Poplawski from Poland was sentenced to a one year suspended prison sentence by a Polish court, which launched the European arrest warrant against the defendant in 2013 when he was residing in the Netherlands. The Dutch authorities...