European Parliament
Fatuzzo (PPE-DE ).
(IT)
As I think you must be aware, Mr President, I am here because I have been elected by the pensioners to represent the Italian Pensioners’ Party. I have to say that, although this is not one of the subjects on which I usually speak to pensioners, I and the Pensioners’ Party are in favour of the creation of a European Public Prosecutor, but only once we have a European penal code and a European code of criminal procedure. I heard one Italian member of parliament say to another: ‘Why is it that we are opposed to the creation of a European Public Prosecutor?’ ‘But of course we are! Public Prosecutors in Italy – whom we are wont to condemn so heavily for being biased – are certainly better than the European Public Prosecutors which would be instituted by this directive!’ I therefore decided to take the same line as these Italian members of parliament, for justice is certainly the most important guarantee for all citizens, wherever they live in the world.

