Luxembourg, 03/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice (13 judges) has just ruled that an Italian court cannot invoke the first European directive on companies as part of a trial against Silvio Berlusconi, because this would have the consequence of increasing the penal responsibility of the President of the Italian Council, who has been charged with publishing false accounts. The Court states that a directive cannot itself have the result of determining or...