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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7891

29 January 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) cfi/ep
Court of First Instance authorises Le Pen to resume his parliamentary functions while awaiting the ruling as to substance - According to Fontaine, the decision will have far-ranging effects in the perspective of enlargement

Luxembourg / Brussels, 29/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a preliminary ruling, issued Friday evening, the European Communities' Court of First Instance agrees with the request lodged by Jean-Marie Le Pen (French, far-right) aimed at granting a stay of execution to the European Parliament's decision, taken in the form of a declaration by its President, by which the EP took note of the decree of the French Government stripping Le Pen of his mandate of Euro-MP.

Without ruling as to the substance...

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