(22) That person should also have the possibility to have a lawyer in the issuing Member State to assist the lawyer in the executing Member State in specific cases during the surrender proceedings without prejudice to the deadlines set out in Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA; that lawyer should be able to assist the lawyer in the executing Member State when exercising the person's rights under the Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA in the executing State, in particular in respect of the grounds of refusal under its Articles 3 and 4; since the European Arrest Warrant is predicated upon the principle of mutual recognition, th ...[+++]is should not entail any right to question the merits of the case in the executing Member State; as there is no incompatibility between defence rights and mutual recognition; enhancing fair trial rights both in the executing and in the issuing Member State will boost mutual trust;

4. Notes that such the expulsions have targeted Roma specifically as a community as a threat to public order and safety and as a burden on the social assistance, and carried out in an extremely short lapse of time under modalities that included public stigmatisation and the use of force and intimidation; since no precise individual and case-by-case evaluation can reasonably and properly be done in such conditions, procedural safeguards have not been applied and guaranteed; the condition of proportionality has been violated and the measures co ...[+++]uld have been taken for economic ends or for general prevention; the directive does not foresee or allow any procedure allowing for the facilitated or voluntary return for EU citizens to the Member State of origin on the basis of an economic ‘compensation’, which would also be contrary to the spirit and letter of the Treaties, since freedom of movement is a fundamental right that cannot be alienated, bought or sold, and would create a discrimination between EU citizens ; furthermore, according to Romanian authorities, none of those returned have ever committed a crime in France or in Romania;

She recommends that the government of Cuba take the following measures: halt the prosecution of citizens who are exercising their guaranteed rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; release detained prisoners who have not committed acts of violence; review laws that lead to criminal prosecution of persons exercising their freedom of expression, demonstration, assembly, etc.; uphold, without exception, the moratorium in the application of the death penalty; reform the rules of criminal procedure to bring them into li ...[+++]ne with the requirements of the Universal Declaration; establish a standing independent body with the function of receiving complaints from persons complaining that their fundamental rights have been abridged; review the regulations relating to travel into and out of Cuba in order to guarantee freedom of movement as defined in the Universal Declaration; authorize non-governmental organizations to enter Cuba; foster pluralism with respect to associations, trade unions, organs of the press, and political parties; and finally, accede to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its optional protocols.

In principle participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.

In a letter of 6 June to your President, I enumerated these elements, foremost among which are remuneration, the principle of reimbursing travel and staff expenses on the basis of actual cost and the principle that the European Parliament, and hence the Community budget, should shoulder responsibility for pension contributions.

I respectfully submit, if there is anything that we can learn from the operation of last year, it is that the provisions you propose in the bill do not suffice to satisfy the constitutional principles of the system, especially when you put in clauses 44 and 45 of the bill and impose a duty to report when you have reasonable grounds to understand or be informed that some of the public office holders or former public office holders might have done something wrong.