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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9321
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council

Poland blocks prisoner transfer in EU - Meeting on violent video games in early 2007

Brussels, 05/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - Poland is the only Member State among the twenty five to block the text on prisoner transfer within the EU, said the Finnish Presidency on Monday. “One single Member State opposed the adoption of the text … it was Poland,” said Finnish justice minister Leena Luhtanen, who was chairing her last EU Council. The aim of draft framework-directive is to simplify the transfer of prisoners to serve their sentences in the Member State of which they are...

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