Brussels, 05/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - At a public hearing on Wednesday organised by the European Parliament Greens/EFA group on the protection of the accused in criminal proceedings, lawyers and MEPs criticised the "two-tier" European justice policy (in the words of Belgian MEP Pierre Jonckheer) that had arisen from the adoption of repressive texts like the European arrest warrant without any real common minimum standards for proceedings. The European Commission's initiative to open a...