After two technical meetings at the end of April, the inter-institutional trialogue negotiations on the proposal to introduce a centralised ‘ECRIS-TCN’ system to check whether a member state has information about the convictions of a third country national, will resume on Wednesday 16 May. Although discussions on the inclusion of dual nationals have stagnated, the European institutions are now attempting to agree on another controversial point: cases for using the ‘ECRIS-TCN’...