Brussels, 02/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 1 December, the European Parliament rejected two requests made by Viktor Uspaskich (ALDE, Lithuania) to reinstate his parliamentary immunity against criminal proceedings in the Vilnius Regional Criminal Court over alleged false accounting offences. Uspaskich had argued that the prosecution was politically motivated and that the lifting of his immunity had prevented him from performing his parliamentary duties.
Uspaskich declared that new...