This week saw Portugal using the new powers to intimidate a photographer from Canterbury, Graham Mitchell, who was arrested by British police at his home after Portuguese authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant.
This comes despite the fact he was tried and acquitted of attempted murder in the Algarve in 1995. After spending a night at Wandsworth Prison in London, he appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court where he was told his initial acquittal was being challenged and that he was being accused of first degree murder - even though 'victim' is still alive.
The court has granted Mr Mitchell conditional bail and ordered that he surrender his passport. He was also made to pay a £5,000 surety and must report to police every day.
Mr Tappin, who fought extradition to the USA for two years now faces the prospect of waiting for years in a violent American prison and being forced into a plea bargain.
He is accused of selling missile parts to Iran. The shipping transaction to Iran, which was undertaken on behalf of a U.S. government front company, made Mr.Tappin $500 - a normal shipping fee. It is impossible to believe that a wealthy man, on the verge of retirement, would have risked everything for such a paltry sum.
No British court has ever been allowed to examine the evidence against Mr Tappin and I believe this Treaty, signed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, needs to be amended.
My friend, the MEP Gerard Batten, demonstrates in a new book how a new European Union system of criminal law is being created.
The booklet has a particular focus on the controversial European Arrest Warrant (EAW) which has seen the lives of Britons such Andrew Symeou were ripped apart as they were extradited to another European country and later found innocent.
This far-reaching piece of EU legislation enables British citizens to be arrested and transported to any corner of the EU on the basis of increasingly ill-defined accusations.
Those extradited from Britain can languish for months or years in foreign prisons without an English or Scottish court having the power to prevent it.
Gerard's booklet 'Freedom, Security and Justice or The Creation of an EU Superstate' documents the development of the EU's single system of criminal law over the last decade or so and how this is being created by stealth. Gerard demonstrates how this heralds the creation of an EU police state.
It also details the legal instruments and institutions in place that have created a system which takes away the rights of the British people to be protected by a British court.