MEPs urge governments to scrap obstacles to EU arrest warrant

The European Parliament has called on member states to cut red tape and refrain from political interventions when they use the EU arrest warrant to order extradition of criminal suspects to another EU country.

The European arrest warrant, which came into force in January 2004, allows judges in EU states to call upon other member states' governments to extradite suspects, including their own nationals.

But according to a report by French socialist MEP Adeline Hazan adopted on Wed...