The rule-of-law-backsliding in some Member States has subverted not only one of the EU fundamental values but also trust among national authorities when implementing European Arrest Warrants (EAW). However, when evaluating the execution of EAWs issued by countries experiencing rule-of-law crises, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) sought to preserve judicial cooperation and imposed a rather “top-down” view on mutual trust among Member States. This approach seemingly disregards the (dis)trust which has emerged in the EU due to rule-of-law-backsliding and fails to acknowledge the psycho-sociological nature of trust. Drawing on the trust literature, the paper offers novel conceptual elements to rethink mutual trust in the EAW framework. Notably, it critically assesses some of the gaps in the CJEU's interpretation of mutual trust and advances suggestions to embed empirical considerations in the conceptualisation of this principle to bridge the gap between trust in practice and in principle.

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弥合事实与规范之间的差距：跨学科背景下的相互信任、欧洲逮捕令和法治

一些成员国的法治倒退不仅颠覆了欧盟的一项基本价值观，也颠覆了国家当局在执行欧洲逮捕令 (EAW) 时的信任。然而，在评估经历法治危机的国家发布的 EAW 的执行情况时，欧盟法院 (CJEU) 试图保持司法合作，并对成员国之间的互信采取了相当“自上而下”的观点. 这种方法似乎忽视了由于法治倒退而在欧盟出现的（不）信任，也没有承认信任的心理社会学性质。借鉴信任文献，本文提供了新的概念元素来重新思考 EAW 框架中的相互信任。值得注意的是，它批判性地评估了 CJEU 中的一些差距。