… Opinion 2/13 (Accession of the Union to the ECHR), of 18 December 2014 (EU:C:2014:2454), is of particular importance in that respect, since even though Article 6(2) TEU provides for the accession of the European Union to the European
Convention
for the
Protection
of
Human
Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 (‘the ECHR’) that accession would be incompatible with Article 344 TFEU if disputes between individuals and the Member States, which are the most typical disputes …
… At the hearing, the Cypriot Government took issue with the arbitral tribunal for having ordered it ‘not to issue and not to enforce certain
European
arrest
warrants
’ against certain Greek nationals, even though the purpose of those warrants was to enable those individuals to participate as witnesses at the hearings before the arbitral tribunal.
192. …
… Accordingly, I do not consider that Article 8 of the BIT is inconsistent with the principle of
mutual
trust
.
268. Lastly, I am scarcely convinced by the Commission’s argument that the non-existence of BITs between the Member States which founded the European Union, or which acceded to it before 2004, proves that those treaties are based on a lack of
mutual
trust
.
269. …