Brussels, 15/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - When it is “unconnected to the activities of the (European) Parliament”, the conduct of an MEP does not amount to an “opinion expressed in the performance of the MEP's duties” and so is not be covered by parliamentary immunity.
That is the view that Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen puts to the Court in the opinion delivered on 9 June in Case C-163/10 responding to the Tribunale di Isernia (Italy), which was hearing criminal proceedings...