20/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - "It had never occurred that a request to be allowed to initiate legal proceedings against an MEP should have been withdrawn from the natural place where such actions must be examined, i.e., the European Parliament's Committee on Legal affairs", said the member of Democratici di sinistra Pasqualina Napoletano ME, commenting on news published last week in El Pais by which a request by a Spanish magistrate concerning the leader o the Forza Italia and MEP, Silvio Berloscuni, (for fraud and tax evasion said to have been committed in the 80s by Fininvest - now Mediaset - with a Spanish television station Telecino that it controlled), is said to have "got stuck" in the hands of a Parliamentary official. Should the news be confirmed, we shall have to seek clarifications in Madrfrid and Brussels, says Ms. Napolitano.