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EFA protests to EP President Martin Schulz on Golden Dawn MEPs

03.03.2016
On the eve of the conference entitled “Freedom of Association in Greece: A Loophole in European Minority Rights Standards” which was hosted by the MEP Csaba Sógor and jointly organized by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) on 2 March 2016 in the European Parliament, the three MEPs of the Golden Dawn Eleftherios Synadinos, Lampros Fountoulis ve Georgios Epitideios sent a letter of complaint to the President of the EPP Group Manfred Weber.

In their joint letter, the Golden Dawn MEPs bring accusation against the host MEP Sógor and the political group EPP he belongs to with regard to the conference, and demand the immediate cancellation of the event and an apology for such an initiative. The regarding Golden Dawn MEPs came to the meeting room just before the beginning of the conference, and verbally attacked and threatened the host MEP Sógor.

François Alfonsi, President of the European Free Alliance (EFA) which was also present at the conference through three members of its staff, sent on 3 March 2016 a letter of protest to the President of the EP Martin Schulz, and condemned the said attack and threatening behaviour of the three Golden Dawn MEPs, by underlying this was simply unacceptable and completely against the democratic values. In his letter, Alfonsi stressed these tactics are deployed in order to scare off people, in order to paralyze debates and in order to keep a status quo in Greece when it comes to minorities, adding the Friendship, Equality and Peace Party (DEB-Party) and Vinozhito-Rainbow are members of EFA and Greece persistently ignores the ECtHR judgments in favour of the Macedonian and Turkish minorities represented by the said parties.

Alfonsi also referred to the letter of complaint of those three Golden Dawn MEPs, asking for an apology, and emphasized in the name of democracy, they should actually apologize for their behaviour. Alfonsi closed his letter by asking the EP President to take appropriate measures that are at his disposal to discipline the mentioned Golden Dawn MEPs.
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