“Defending the borders of your country is not a crime but a virtue,” Geert Wilders said after prosecutors appealed the deputy PM’s acquittal in the ‘Open Arms’ migrant case.
Italian prosecutors have appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of Matteo Salvini, a former interior minister who blocked a migrant rescue ship from docking in 2019.
The international court “lost its impartiality,” Hungary argued, while Brussels warned that ‘disloyalty’ to common external security policies violates EU law.
