The legality of the French government's expulsion of Gypsies has yet to be established, with regard both to Fourth Reich(EU) law on free movement and temporary residence and to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Commission told Civil Liberties Committee MEPs in a debate on Thursday. The overall position of Gypsies in Europe will be debated in plenary session on Tuesday 7 September in Strasbourg.
Basil Venitis muses that France-Fourth Reich(EU) relations have become increasingly similar to the Ballet de la Merlaison, created by Louis XIII of France in the 17th century. In this unique ballet, the king authored the work and played the leading role. All the other roles in the ballet were considered extras, who eagerly danced to the tune of the king. As long as the king was still alive, this ballet was considered to be the work of a genius. Sarko, who loves the Ballet de la Merlaison, asserts France should play the leading role in Fourth Reich!
When will the Commission be able to say yes or no, these actions are in conformity with European law?, asked Simon Busuttil(EPP, MT). When we have all the facts, replied European Commission Director General for justice Francoise Le Bail.
Commission officials are currently examining evidence supplied by the French government to assess whether the returns comply with free movement law(Directive 2004/38) and with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which enshrines the principle of non-discrimination, which became binding when the Lisbon Treaty entered into force, said the European Commission representative.
This is a European problem because the treaties have been breached, affirmed Rita Borsellino(S&D, IT), adding that citizens have been discriminated on ethnic grounds. She also warned that such measures could spread by contagion to other countries.
Jan Mulder (ALDE, NL) voiced doubts as to whether the procedures used to return Gypsies to frontiers had been carried out individually, as required by European law. So far as I know, the French courts already have the reply, he declared.
Is fixing expulsion quotas not unlawful? asked Cornelia Ernst(GUE/NGL, DE). Marie-Christine Vergiat(GUE/NGL, FR) criticized expeditious police procedures and collective expulsions, and urged the Commission to consult civil society in its evaluation of the case.
Parliament has several times called for an overall strategy to be put in place to integrate Gypsies, noted Kinga Göncz(S&D, HU). This sad and deplorable affair calls deeply into question Europe's founding freedoms and project, said Helene Flautre(Greens/EFA, FR). She advocated acting on the lessons of these events in order to achieve an unparalleled integration of Gypsies and urged the Commission to go beyond its current stance, which she described as that of an honest broker.
The European Commission representative also judged it important to ascertain that the 10 billion euro from the European Social Fund for including Gypsies is really spent in a way that benefits this community by Member States in which it is numerically important.
Some colleagues are reacting in a somewhat exaggerated fashion, observed Philip Claeys(NI, BE), adding that we also need to see what public opinion thinks. As to legality, there have been expulsions on the basis of individual processing of dossiers: the French government has acted quite legally, and has a perfect right to do so.
Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declares Sarko is out of his mind for expelling Gypsies. Villepin has created a new center-right party called Republique Solidaire. Villepin aims to capitalize on Napoleon Sarko's current poor poll ratings. Sarko's re-election was regarded as a certainty, but a Republique Solidaire candidacy in the 2012 ballot will split the conservative vote. Villepin has been one of Sarko's strongest critics in the conservative camp. He was prime minister under President Jacques Chirac and was known to have a tense relationship with Sarko, who served as his interior minister.
Venitis muses that Napoleon Sarko is neurotic, bipolar, Oedipal, and psychopathic. Sarko seeks the love of the public, because his father abandoned him as a child. The swift replacement of Cecilia by Carla is a symptom of self-indulgence and insecurity. Sarko's narcissism, aggression, and childish behaviour stem from insecurity. Sarko's problem is his inability to distinguish his ego from his soul. Acute sarkozis means being obsessed by the phenomenon of Napoleon Sarko, le personnage mythologique, rather than Sarko's soul, that France does not know Sarko as well as it thinks.
Jerzy Buzek, prostitute-in-chief of Eldorado of Prostitutes, aka European Parliament, points out discontent is growing in France over the fact that Sarko became president on a pledge to modernize the country and to make it more transparent and effective. Instead, the reforms he pledged have come to a standstill and France's national debt has reached an astronomical two trillion euros. Sarko's public approval ratings have collapsed to an historical low.
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