This paper discusses the decision by a German criminal court to refuse President Puigdemont’s delivery to Spain, on the ground of a European Arrest Warrant. The author argues that this decision was erroneous, being in breach with both the EAW framework decision and Article 82 TFEU.
The decisions of the ECHR issued on May 31, 2018 in the cases Abu Zubaydah vs Lithuania and Al Nashiri vs Romania demonstrates once again, despite their public repercussions are rather scarce, the complicity of the EU states with a US anti-terrorist policy capable of challenging the prohibition of torture.