Europe’s most wanted? Recalibrating Trust in the European Arrest Warrant System - Hernanz, Nicholas; Guild, Elspeth; Carrera, Sergio (CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies, 2013)
This paper assesses the uses and misuses in the application of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system in the European Union. It examines the main quantitative results of this extradition system achieved between 2005 and 2011 on the basis of the existing statistical knowledge on its implementation at EU official levels. The EAW has been anchored in a high level of ‘mutual trust’ between the participating states’ criminal justice regimes and authorities