10-02-2019 | Cs

Pagaza, celebrates that 'the candidate for commissioner of Justice is committed to improving the device to fight against serious crimes' and to 'support the constitutional order' in Catalonia

"The reform of the euroorder is on the agenda of the new European Commission," said the vice president of LIBE, Maite Pagaza, at the end of the oral response of candidate Reynders to the question on the reform of the European arrest warrant.

Didier Reynders announced during the course of his review at LIBE that the euroorder compliance assessment that the current Commission is carrying out will be ready in early 2020. In the light of the conclusions of the report, the aspiring Commissioner has committed to presenting "improvements" in the mechanism "to fight against serious crimes", in response to the question of the MEP Pagaza.

For Pagaza, "the reform is urgent because the most serious crimes cannot have impunity in the European territory." Pagaza has remarked that there is room for improvement in the list of criminal categories to protect different legal assets and "the greatest of them," he stressed, "is the democratic rule of law, including territorial integrity and the rule of law."

Pagaza has also celebrated that Reynders has explicitly expressed that he will follow the line of the current Commission to ensure “full respect for the constitutional order” in Catalonia.

The vice president of LIBE stressed that “the architecture of police cooperation must be prepared to eliminate dead angles and face new and emerging threats,” as the candidate for the Interior portfolio, candidate Johansson, has acknowledged. In this sense, Pagaza considers that it is more necessary than ever, "the strengthening of judicial cooperation and the principle of mutual recognition of judicial decisions in the Common Area of ​​Freedom and Justice." Precisely, this principle "is the basis of the Euro-order mechanism" adopted to "combat transnational crime" but also to "protect legal systems and our democratic rule of law."

Finally, Pagaza has assessed the words of the aspiring Commissioner very positively when he has expressed that "the values ​​we defend are threatened by those who want to return to the populist and nationalist rhetoric that should belong to the past."



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