ALDE speculează tema expulzării ţiganilor

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Liberalii de stânga (ALDE), grup politic din care face parte şi secţia liberală a PSD, adică PNL, speculează ultimele evenimente legate de expulzarea din unele state UE a unor delincvenţi de etnie ţigănească. Se remarcă în acest demers Sophie In´t Veld, colegă cu Renatta şi cu Monique în grupul pro-gay din Parlamentul European.

ALDE requests plenary debate on the Roma situation in the EU

24/08/2010

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe deeply regrets that several European governments have brazenly stigmatised the Roma community over these past summer months.  "The exiling of German-born Roma children to Kosovo, the military-style dismantling of Roma camps in France, the massive expulsions, and the encouragements of an Italian minister to carry out openly xenophobe policies, are sad events for the European Union whose values have been ridiculed", deplores Guy VERHOFSTADT, president of the group who requests a declaration from the Council and the Commission on the Roma situation in Europe for the next Strasbourg plenary.  "The Parliament must remind Europe of our principles and the Commission must assure that the rights of minorities are respected", added M. Verhofstadt.

"To tolerate such discriminatory practices could lead to the opening of Pandora´s box: Who will be the next group to be stigmatised and expulsed?" said Sophie IN´T VELD (D66, Netherlands), who is at the origin of the request for a parliamentary debate which will be made during the next Conference of Presidents. "I am ashamed of these governments who play populist sentiment against a minority which is already marginalised in their country of origin, and I am even more outraged that so few of these ministers who today are proud of their repressive exploits judged it necessary to attend the European Summit on the Roma people last April in Cordova ", concluded Mme In´t Veld.

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