But there is widespread unease in Britain over how some arrangements are working, especially the EAW.
Specifically, it will examine the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), which makes extradition to a country in the European Union that requests it all but automatic, and a bilateral extradition treaty with America.
On the afternoon of September 28th Jeremy Forrest, a maths teacher who dominated news bulletins for a week after running away with a 15-year-old pupil, was apprehended in France, thanks to a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued in Britain.
Fair Trials International, a lobby group, has a dossier of startling cases including that of Deborah Dark, a British woman who has been hounded by an EAW.
That same day the prime minister, David Cameron, told reporters his country would be exercising its right to opt out of a mass of European policing and crime measures, including the EAW.
In fact the most important bits of pan-European policing Europol (which shares police intelligence), Eurojust (for co-operation among prosecutors) and the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), which allows fast-track extradition will stay in place.The arrest warrant has attracted the greatest controversy in Britain.
But I also could not believe more strongly in keeping the EAW, which Nigel Farage thinks is "completely unnecessary".
In the debate I held with Nigel Farage last night, he made a series of false claims about the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), which is the agreement that allows us to fast-track the extradition of suspects between the countries of the EU.
The government opted out of a package of more than 100 justice and home affairs measures, but has indicated it wants to opt back into 35 of them, including the EAW.
The government is facing a rebellion by several dozen Conservative MPs after the coalition parties struck a tentative deal to keep 35 Europe-wide law and order powers, including the EAW.
In both the Assange and the Jaskolski cases the EAW is set on a collision course where the labyrinthine world of EU mutual recognition meets the reality of defendants' rights.
