The European Parliament announced on Monday 2 January that it had launched an urgency procedure, following a request from the Belgian judicial authorities, to waive the immunity of two MEPs in the context of a corruption investigation within the institution involving Qatar.
The two MEPs concerned are the Italian Andrea Cozzolino and the Belgian Marc Tarabella, both of whom are members of the S&D group. Both are targeted in the operation that led Belgian investigators to arrest MEP and...