On Wednesday 7 February, the European Commission decided to take Belgium and Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failure to comply with the directive on the right of access to a lawyer and communication in the event of arrest (Directive 2013/48/EU).
The deadline for transposing this directive was 27 November 2016.
In September 2021, the Commission sent a letter of formal notice to Belgium, identifying shortcomings in the transposition of the directive, in...