Overview

• Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee is scheduled to vote today on Hungary’s request to lift the Italian MEP’s immunity, with the final decision expected in the plenary on October 7.
• Pre‑vote counts cited by ANSA indicate 11 members leaning to defend Salis, seven for revocation, and seven from the European People’s Party seen as potential swing votes.
• Salis says she wants to be tried in Italy rather than Hungary, invoking Article 9 of Protocol 7, and urges Italian authorities to open a case under domestic law.
• The MEP alleges political targeting in Hungary, noting a government spokesman shared prison coordinates and that Viktor Orbán labeled her a terrorist.
• The Budapest prosecutor accuses Salis of attempted bodily harm with danger to life linked to 2023 attacks and, if immunity is revoked, a European arrest warrant could be sought without guaranteeing extradition.