The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday 4 September (case C-305/22) that without the consent of the State issuing a European arrest warrant, the judicial authority cannot refuse to execute the warrant and take responsibility itself for enforcing the sentence.
The Romanian courts are challenging the Italian courts’ refusal to hand over a Romanian citizen sentenced to imprisonment in Bucharest, on the grounds that serving the sentence in Italy, the person’s...