(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - The judiciary's self-governing body, the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM), on Wednesday approved by a wide majority a resolution for the safeguard of judges in Bologna who have referred to the European Court of Justice a new decree listing safe countries for repatriation.
    The safeguard procedure has no juridical effect but represents an official position taken by the CSM on the issue, stigmatizing the harsh reaction of leading government members against the magistrates who took the decision.
    It is the first safeguard procedure approved over the past 15 years during a plenary session of the self-governing body.
    The last instance dated back to 2009 and regarded Raimondo Mesiano, the judge in the so-called Lodo Mondadori case concerning two entrepreneurs, late former premier Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo de Benedetti, and the bid for the ownership of the Arnaldo Mondadori publishing house. After 2009, two other practices reached the plenum, in 2019 and 2021, but did not involve the relationship between the judiciary and decision makers. (ANSA).