COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Jha

Advocate General holds that a European citizen will reintegrate more easily by serving his sentence in the EU than being extradited to a third country

Brussels, 26/07/2018 (Agence Europe)

In his Opinion delivered on Wednesday July 25 in Case C-247/17, Advocate General Yves Bot held that the authorities of a member state must examine whether, in light of the connecting factors to the same state of a person sentenced in a third country, the enforcement of the sentence in the European Union is likely to promote the social reintegration of this person.

If this is the case, the member state must implement the instruments of international cooperation in order to obtain the consent...