In his opinion delivered on Tuesday, 26 November, Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona stated that the judicial authority which issues a European arrest warrant must be fully independent and must not be subject to hierarchical constraints or to orders or instructions.
Several courts are uncertain as to whether the public prosecutor’s offices in France (cases C-566/19 and C626/19), Sweden (case C-625/19) and Belgium (case C-627/19) could be regarded as an ‘issuing judicial...