The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in its Junqueras Vies judgment (C-502/19), delivered on Thursday 19 December, that a person elected to the European Parliament acquires parliamentary immunity as soon as the results are officially announced.
The Catalan separatist Junqueras Vies appealed to the Court on the interpretation of Article 9 of the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union by the Spanish Supreme Court. The politician, who was then in...