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Gang leader loses appeal against being tried for murder in Netherlands Naoufal Fassih (40) challenged issuing of European Arrest Warrant by Dutch authorities about an hour ago Eoin Reynolds Naoufal Fassih: was surrendered to the Netherlands and convicted of attempted murder, assault, possession of false documents and money laundering. He was jailed for 18 years for those offe...

George Hepburne-Scott Prior to our departure by far the highest volume of extradition cases were through the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) scheme. The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was signed on the 24 December 2020 and came into force at 11:01pm on 31 December 2020. Among other things, the TCA created a new extradition warrant called simply the Arrest Warrant (AW). The AW surrender arrangements are contained in Title VII of Part 3 in the TCA. Legislatively, as incorporated into t...

The applicants, who had all been arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) before 31 December 2020, failed in their applications for writs of habeas corpus. Their applications had been made on a single common ground: that, since 11 pm on 31 December 2020, the end of the transition period defined by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU and Euratom, there was no longer any legal basis in international law for their surrender; and that in consequence there w...

© European Union 2021 – Source : EP / Eric VIDAL The main debates of the January 2021 plenary session were on the inauguration of the new President of the United States, and the presentation of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency. Members also debated the humanitarian situation of refugees and migrants at the EU’s external borders, as well as the EU global strategy on Covid‑19 vaccinations, and the social and employment crisis caused by the pandemic and the EU’s response. Lack of tran...

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