Arresting
Delays over Europe's arrest warrant
MARTIN SCHULZ, a German socialist Euro-MP, has a talent for luring Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, into saying things he shouldn't. In July, he needled him into likening Mr Schulz to a concentration-camp guard. When Mr Berlusconi recently returned to Strasbourg, Mr Schulz asked what the Italian government was doing to ratify plans for a common European arrest warrant. Mr Berlusconi's response in the chamber was vague. But at a press conference afterwards, he announced that “next week the Italian parliament will discuss, and vote on, the bill [to approve a] European arrest warrant and prosecutor's office.”
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Arresting”
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