The French, Swedish and Belgian public prosecutors’ offices meet the requirements for issuing a European arrest warrant, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in urgent judgments delivered on Thursday 12 December.
Several national 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 authority’ within the meaning of the...