Presumably you're all familiar with the Tillack affair;-

Hamburg court rules against Tillack
02.02.2005 - 09:58 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk

Hamburg's highest court, the Oberlandesgericht, yesterday (1 February) ruled against former Brussels editor Hans-Martin Tillack and his employer, the German Stern Magazine, fighting a case against the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF.

The court said that, due to a general immunity protecting EU officials, it could not order a former European Commission spokesman not to spread allegations that Mr Tillack bribed EU officials.

The judge underlined that this does not mean that the Commission spokesman was telling the truth.

In 2002, Mr Tillack published articles in Stern about alleged irregularities in OLAF based on internal documents from the organisation.

OLAF then released a press statement saying it was possible that someone had been bribed to get the documents, an allegation that Stern magazine denied.

The bribery allegations were sourced to spokesman Joachim Gross in the cabinet of former Commissioner Michaele Schreyer. No proof was provided of any bribery.

In September, the lower Court, the Landgericht Hamburg, banned Mr Gross from repeating the allegations of bribery.

But Mr Gross - supported by the Commission and represented by lawyer Boris Uphoff - appealed against this decision, prompting the high court's decision yesterday.

Mr Uphoff told the EUobserver that he considered the outcome of the case "obvious".

"Neither German courts nor any other national courts have jurisdiction over EU employees", he added.

A protocol to the EU treaties from 8 April 1965 grants EU civil servants a life-long immunity from legal proceedings "in respect of acts performed by them in their official capacity, including their words spoken or written".
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This immunity thing really makes me sick. One of the first things we should do when we're in government is to attempt to put a retrospective bill through parialemt, so that any accusations that have been made against British EU civil sevants/MEPs, can be fully investigated, with guilty parties brought to account.
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I'd prefer to see all those lying B*********** that took us deeper and deeper INTO phpbb_the EU hauled INTO phpbb_court for treason... including them that's dead... dig the beggars back up and put 'em on show!
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Yeah, and let that German guy on Anatomy For Beginers do his stuff on them!

Has anyone seen that show? Very educational, but it really is amazing what they will allow on T.V. now.
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GTFC_Adam
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This immunity thing really makes me sick. One of the first things we should do when we're in government is to attempt to put a retrospective bill through parialemt, so that any accusations that have been made against British EU civil sevants/MEPs, can be fully investigated, with guilty parties brought to account.

The first thing you do when you are in the unlikely position of governing this country is to learn to spell "parliament" correctly.

Regards,

Robert Edwards
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mkpdavies wrote:

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Has anyone seen that show? Very educational, but it really is amazing what they will allow on T.V. now.

It was on BBC3 after kilroy Behind the tan, and when I went to watch kilroy again there it was :? doing things that made my eyes water :cry:

Ive still got the recording.
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