| | Gateway to European Migration Law - Germany: European Arrest Warrant Act void, Constitutional Court, 2 BvR 2236/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Moreover, the European Arrest Warrant Act infringes the guarantee of recourse to a court Article 19.4 of the Basic Law — free download) because there is no possibility of challenging the judicial decision that grants extradition. |
 | | As a result, the constitutional complaint lodged by the complainant, who is supposed to be extradited to Spain for criminal prosecution on the basis of a European arrest warrant, was successful. |
 | | Poland had a similar problem with the European arrest warrant, when its high court ruled in April that the measure violated the country's constitutional ban on the extradition of Polish citizens abroad. |
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