Originally Posted by Tom Wilde

I can see I'm going to have to pick my words even more carefully! When I said "the striking similarity of the two appeals", I wasn't referring in any way to the nature of the cases against the two men in their respective home countries. Plainly those cases couldn't be more different. I simply meant that both MEPs had (separately) been the subject of special votes by the European Parliament to remove any parliamentary immunity the individual MEP might (or might not) have, and that both MEPs had (separately) then appealed to the European Court of First Instance asking it to overturn the European Parliament vote.