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"Madam President, some months ago I gave evidence to the British House of Lords on the efficacy of the European Arrest Warrant and in researching that I learned, as a citizen of Europe, that in fact the European Arrest Warrant had been extremely effective. It had in fact become a cornerstone of cross-border criminal justice but, of course, as everyone in this House knows, it needed urgent and clear reform.
But the question of where that balance lay is the work that Baroness Ludford has done very effectively, and our Group is very happy to support it because, in order for us cross over from the caricatures of how the European Arrest Warrant has been treated – as a poster child of how justice and home affairs cooperation is bad – then we must have clear evidence, cold and objective, as to what exactly is going wrong with the European Arrest Warrant.
In my own city of London, in my country the United Kingdom, in the case of Maggie Hughes, whom the Commissioner knows, and her son Robert, who suffered a brutal life-changing gang attack whilst on holiday in Crete – his attackers are on trial thanks to the European Arrest Warrant. The perpetrators of the attempted bombings in London on 21[nbsp ]July 2005 are also being brought to justice because of the European Arrest Warrant.
But of course there are many trivial cases. There are many people who have long pre-trial detention. There is the inability of the UK courts to consider the human rights system in the country of extradition. There is so much to be reformed. And that is the work that we have to do today.
But let us get the balance right and let us reform with a sense of objectivity, a sense of balance, let us do our work here as MEPs to get the balance right. That does not mean that reform is not necessary. But when we did our work on the European Arrest Warrant we found out something very valuable and that is that when you look at the facts, what you find out is that we do something here in cross-border justice that is very effective for citizens of Europe, but when we find out the detail, that is when we get clarity."@en1
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