BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it had opened infringement proceedings against France, Malta, Latvia, Portugal and Slovakia as a result of their incomplete or incorrect transposition of the EU's framework decision on the European arrest warrant.
"The European arrest warrant is a simplified cross-border judicial procedure to surrender a requested person for the purpose of prosecution or executing a custodial sentence or detention order," the EU's executive said in a statement on Thursday.
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