Do all countries now agree to surrender their nationals?
The rules on the European arrest warrant abolish non-execution of surrender on grounds of the wanted person’s nationality. This generalisation of the surrender of nationals is one of the Framework Decision’s most significant achievements. But it has not been without difficulties of a constitutional nature in some Member States. Two Member States – Portugal and Slovenia – anticipated and overcame these difficulties before transposing the Framework Decision. France also carried out a constitutional revision by means of a law of March 2003. In three other Member States, the difficulties became apparent after the event. in Germany, the transposition law was annulled by a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court dated 18 July 2005; the decision prevented the surrendering of German citizens, but not the extradition of foreign nationals, until the new law of 20 July 2006 entered into force on 2 August 2006. in Poland, with a decision of the Constitutional Tribunal dated 27 April 2005; the
