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"Mr President, I am very grateful to Mrs Ludford for asking that question, because it was on the tip of my tongue as well. Last week, I attended the proceedings in Poland against Mr Cor Disselkoen – his name has been mentioned already today. He is a Dutch national who was extradited to Poland on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant for an affair dating back to the mid-1990s. In the few days that he was behind bars – because, eventually, the Dutch and the Polish judges came to an arrangement – in those few days, the guard there stole the medications which he takes for his heart condition.
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the European Arrest Warrant is carried out, but also that prison conditions in various countries in Europe are such that you really cannot carry on sending people there any more. The judge in the country to which the request is addressed should also have the discretion to say: ‘I will not extradite people to a country in which prison facilities are inhumane and, as a judge, I will uphold Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights’. I agree with the Council that countries should be discreet about cases in respect of which they issue such a request, but countries should also have the freedom to say: ‘That is such a minor offence, I am not going to extradite people for that’. Therefore, it is very important for Poland to change the way it administers justice."@en1
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