It's a video with a duration of 3 min and 11 sec concerning the matter of European Arrest Warrant during a plenary sitting in the European Parliament on the 8 June 2011.

(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/plenary/video?end-date=20120721&keywords=arrest&format=wmv&askedDiscussionNumber=1)

In the UK this matter has become the favourite battle field for the adepts of euro-skepticism. (Listen to the intervention of Batten Gerard)

Here below you find attached links to the directive and other succinct information.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:142:0001:0010:EN:PDF

http://www.europeanlawmonitor.org/what-is-guide-to-key-eu-terms/eu-law-what-is-the-european-arrest-warrant.html

The 27 Member States have different procedural standards and different criminal laws (example given here with reference to Julian Assange case, different definitions of rape, the Swedish definition being much broader than the British one).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scIUYOopxVk

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