COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Jha

For lack of sufficient independence from executive branch, German prosecutors' offices cannot issue a European arrest warrant

Brussels, 27/05/2019 (Agence Europe)

The judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Monday 27 May in Joined Cases C-508/18, C-82/19 and C-509/18 that the German public prosecutor’s offices, unlike the Prosecutor General of Lithuania, did not offer a sufficient guarantee of independence from the executive fo the purpose of issuing a European arrest warrant. 

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