The way to remove the immunity of a member of the European Parliament is open Alexis Georgoulisas the relevant request will be considered at an extraordinary meeting of the Legal Committee of the European Parliament (JURI) next Tuesday, 23 May.

For his former MEP SYRIZAin accordance with the relevant procedure of the Commission, from mid-April, the European People’s Party appointed the Pole Andrzej Galicki as rapporteur, who undertook to prepare the relevant case for consideration in such a short time of the application for the lifting of immunity. submitted by the Belgian authorities as he is under investigation for “serious criminal offences”.

After all, Mr. Georgoulis himself asked to expedite the procedure so that his lawyers have access to the case file, since this will not happen if the immunity is not lifted.

At the same extraordinary meeting of the JURI, a petition to lift the immunity of MEP Maria Spirakis will be considered.

For her Maria SpirakiCase details recently leaked to Politico say investigators accuse her of misleading the European Parliament about her associates’ activities and irregularities related to their “virtual trips”, but there is no evidence that the Greek MEP took bribes from her salary or fake compensation. There was no such accusation from the start, she recalled in a recent conversation with K, and now she expects her immunity to be lifted in order to close her case once and for all.