newsitems CoE PanEuropean Assembly to Debate +Vote Report on Women Mass Aggressions + Media Muzzling
CoE PanEuropean Assembly to Debate +Vote Report on Women Mass Aggressions + Media Muzzling
*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- in a Surprize, last minute Move, but supported by an astonishingly Big Majority, the PanEuropean Organization for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, i.e., 47 Member States-strong CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, decided Today to prepare a Report, with Public Debate and Resolutiion, on the Scandalous Media Muzzling for many Days of the unprecedented Horrible Brutal Mass Aggressions that many Hundreds of Defenseless Women and/or Young Girls notoriously suffered by Coordinated Mobs of Thousands of Thugs, at New Year Eve, mostly Migrants recently arrived in Europe among the much more than 1 Million Massive Asylum Seekers/Irregular Immigrants' Unprecedented 'T sunami", which tresspased EU's External Borders mainly at Greece, through Turkey, during the Last 5 or 6 Months (+August 2015 - 1/2016).
The Official Request for a relevat "Urgent Debate" on which CoE's Assembly Voted is placed under the original Heading : -"Protection of Women, and the Honest Reporting of unpalatable Truths".
i.e. obviously Focusing also on the notorious Scandal, mainly at the North-Rhine Westfalia (alias "NRW") German Federated State ("Laender"), controled by the Socialist Party, whose Biggest City, Koeln, marked the Biggest Number of Victims by more than a Thousand of Coordinated Brutal Aggressors, while the Local/Regional Police not only didN't Defend at all the Women Targetted by a Violent Mob, but even instisted to Hide, both the Gravity and the Characteristics of most Aggressors, as, both the Recently Elected New Mayor of the City, and a lot of various People, strongly Denounced. Even a Big and usualy "Pro" RadioTV Channel, such as "ZDF", and almost All Other Traditional Media, notoriously Failed to Report the Facts, while a NRW's Top Official had reportedly Ordered to Skip the Identity of the Aggressors, the Gravity of the Violence Abused against the unprotected Victims.
=> CoE's Parliamentary Assembly Voted in Favour of such an "Urgent Debate" on Both these 2 Points (i.e. Violent Aggressions against Women AND attempts to Hide the Truth : Comp. Supra), with an unexpectedly Strong Majority of more than the 2/3, with 140 Votes "For", and Only 53 "Against", while 17 Abstained.
Nevertheless, some MEPs, (as, f.ex., Socialist German Ms Mechtild Rawert, etc), appearered Bis Anxious to "Change the Name" of that Report, by imposing a "New Title", as she said, shortly after another, apparently Similar, but in fact very Different Draft, was also proposed in the name of all the "5 Groups" of CoE's Assembly, which refers Simply to : the "Recent Attacks against Women in European Cities", and to the "Need for a Comprehensive Response", (i.e. withOut Saying Anything Explicit in theTitle about the Scandalous Attempts to Hide the Truth...).
It was said in CoE's Assembly, in reply to that Socialist MEP's demand, that the competent Committee "May", afterwards, "Change the Name" of that Report, (i.e., perhaps even Erase its Original Headline Reference to the "Truth", etc).
But, COE's Assembly Decided to Officialy Transmit that Topical Issue, in order to prepare a Report with a Draft Resolution for Public Debate and Final Vote in the Plenary on Thursday, to its Committtee for Equality and Non-Discrimination, which is still Chaired by Turkish Socialist MEP Gulsun Bilgehan, who was among that Minority which had Voted Against such a Report, (as did Most Turkish MEPs, also from Other Political Groups)...
However, that Committee has also 2 Vice-Presidents from the ChristianDemocrat/EPP Group : Carmen Quintanilla, from Spain, and Elvira Kovacs, from Serbia, etc., and it remains to be seen how will also react most of its Members during the forrthcoming crucial Meetings, later this week in Strasbourg, before the Plenary Debate for Final Decision-making.
+Meanwhile, at least 2 Local/Regional Police Top Officials were reportedly Dismissed in Koln City and at the level of all NRW Laender, mainly after theirs Attempts to Diminish and/or Hide the Evil Done, during more than 5 whole Days, until it was reportedly Revealed, initialy by a Marginal, Pioneer NewsMedia, and afterwards by a Big, Mainstream Media, before unleashing an All-Presse "Tsunami"... Several Hundreds of Individual Complaints erupted from various Victims. (In Koeln, Most of them appeared to be Poor Girls, living Far Away from the City-Center, at various isolated Villages, which Depended on Public Transports, that the Local Police had reportedly ...Blocked, practicaly Pushing the Victims to Fall at the Hands of their Aggressors, waiting for them precisely in front of Koeln's Main Public Station, facing the Cathedral and the Rhine river-side where People traditionaly watched the Fireworks. Some of the Victims of unprecedented, Mob Attacks and Brutalities, their face in Blood, had to Walk Home for 2 or 3 Hours during the Night, when they escaped to their Aggressors, deeplu shocked, wounded and/or bleeding, after being "Treated like Cattle", as German Media revealed.
- "Firmly Condemning the Mass Sexual Assaults perpetrated the 31 December in Germany and Switzerland (etc., f.ex. : + Sweden, etc), PanEuropean CoE's Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Sahiba Gafarova, from Azerbaidjan, had already stressed that "these Violations of Womens' Rights can Neither been Tolerated, Nor remain Unpunished".
Curiously, however, NRW's Local/Regional Police, (the Socialists'-led Federated State, where Koeln Belongs), after reportedly Blocking the Victims (Comp. Supra), and Scandalously Abandoning them to their Brutal Mass Aggressors without doing anything to Help Protect them at all, moreover, it not only, repeatedly Pushed to Hide the Truth, both to the New Mayor of the City (an Independent, supported by a Coalition of ChristianDemcrats, Liberals and Greens), and to the Public at large, for at least 5 Days, but they even Attacked with Water-Canons and Gas a Popular Demonstration of several Thousands of People, after Obliging it to Change its Path, Stoppiung it, and Ordering it to Disperse, without ever arrivibng at its normal Destination, where the Incidents had taken place. Didn't they imagine that, at least some of the Victims' Families might have been among the Demonstrators ?
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Scientific innovation joined to Faith for Human Rights, Eastern Partnership and fight against the Crisis, but above all, the need to overcome the "Crisis of Trust" from EU Citizens, are the main priorities for new EU Parliament's President, Polish Jerzy Buzek, that a 555-votes-strong majority of MEPs on July 14, Strasbourg made a living symbol of the fact that, 20 years after the fall of Berlin Wall (1989 - 2009) there is no more an Eastern or Western Europe, but only one Europe, as the head of the largest group of MEPs, ChristianDemocrats/EPP, Joseph Daul, stressed after the event.
Speaking later to a group of Strasbourg's Journalists, including "EuroFora", the new EU Parliament's President clarified his stance on concrete topical issues, as f.ex. that of Turkey's controversial EU bid, which was one of the main issues of the June 2009 Electoral campain, clearly won by his party of ChristianDemocrats/EPP : - "At present, Turkey does not fullfil none of EU conditions", he stressed, (See infra).
Buzek is well known in Strasbourg and to "EuroFora" as EU Rapporteur for the Framework Program of Scientific Research and Development of Technologies. A Natural Science Professor from the Historic and Religious landmark Polish City of Częstochowa, active in the famous Solidarnosk grass-roots social movement, he served 4 years as Prime Minister (1997-2001), before being elected as MEP in 2004 and 2009, after he brillantly won the latest EU Election at the head of his party (EPP) almost doubling the number of its MEPs from 15 to 28 !
- "Innovation" and "Energy safety", as well as fight against the "Cimat change", but also "Eastern Partnership", the "Mediterranean", "Strategic partnerships" with Russia, the USA, etc, and the search for "solutions to the Economic Crisis" that EU Citizens "expect" from us, will be his "priorities", announced from the outset the new EU Parliament's President, reminding also that the quest for "Human and Civic Rights" played an important role in his experience with the Solidarnosc grass-roots social movement in Poland's History
But, the most important of all, is the urgent need to overcome the "Crisis of Trust" between EU Institutions and the People he stressed : - EU "Citizens often don't understand us", denounced Buzek, launcing a call to "do anything for EU Citizens to understand our work" in EU Parliament : "We (MEPs) need to make EU Citizens involved" in "what we are doing every week, in Strasbourg and Brussels", he proposed. Pointing f.ex. to the hot "Debates" with "strong arguments" exchanged between MEPs during the preparation of their Legislative Decisions, in Committees, delivering often hard struggles between initially opposed points of view, long before forging a majority at the final vote, sometimes more than a year..
Therefore, EU Parliament will be "open to your criticism, for discussion and exchange of views", he promissed to Journalists in Strasbourg.
In this way, Buzek, in fact, highlighted "EuroFora"s main idea, that we strongly advocate since 1997-2007, to systematicaly and actively involve EU Citizens in public debates during the decision-making process of important EU measures, which affect their lives and the society in which they live, (and not only just a few weeks each 4 or 5 Years at the eve of EU Elections)...
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This is related also to the symbolic gift that Buzek chose to give to the out-going former EU Parliament's President, Hans Gert Poettering, (2007-2009), his collegue in the ChristianDemocrats/EPP, who brillantly won 2009 EU Elections in Germany : A genuine statute of sainte Barbara crafted in Silesia's black Coal by Polish Miners : Those simple but strong people who fought for social change against some technocrats and bureaucrats disguissed into so-called "real-socialists" of old times. (PHOTO).
It's enough to have seen a popular open air mass, at Warsaw's center, with many thousands of people, old and young, simple workers and intellectuals mixed together, with references to Poland's history and struggles for survival and liberty, through various ages, (as fex. that organized at the eve of CoE's 2005 panEuropean Heads of State and Government for the beatification of late Pope John-Paul II), in order to understand what such symbols mean..
But, overcoming the "Crisis of Trust" with EU Citizens obviously implies also to rectify any errors done in the past, fex. on Turkey's controversial EU bid, with controversial decisions taken in 1999 and 2004 to give a "candidate" status and to start EU negotiations, provoking an unprecedented series of 3 "No" to EuroReferenda and 3 Majoriy Abstentions in EU Parliament Elections : 1999, 2005 and 2009, (even if the latest one succeeded to decelerate and almost stop the drop of participation rates, opening hopes for vote's revival after an electoral campaign clearly critical to Turkey's claims in several mainstream EU countries)
Therefore, Buzek was faced with manifold critical Questions on EU Enlargement, most of them citting concrete examples of certain political problems : But his replies were almost always given as a matter of general principle :
F.ex. Questioned on the suspension of EU - Croatia talks because of a Border conflict with EU Member Slovenia, Buzek prefered to speak about principles :
- "We know that during Enlargement, the process can be blocked by failure to resolve this kind of issues", This concerns also other enlargments' cases", and "these rules are always in force" he warned.
But Buzek avoided to directly reply to a queston on "French and German EPP' calls to define the Borders of Europe", as a German journalist asked him by making a reference to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor Angie Merkel's, critical statements on Turkey at the June 2009 Electoral campain.
- "Concerning Enlargement, there's always the same rules : There have to be Criteria, which have to be respected if a Country wants to join the EU", he started to simply reply.
- "For my country (Poland) it took us 15 Years to fullfil these Criteria", Buzek reminded, indicating, if proportions are kept, that Turkey, fex. would have to spend some 25 years before eventually joining the EU..
- "Countries wishing to join the EU need to Change their Systems", as we (Poland and other former Eastern European Countries) did, he stressed.
- "'For me, meeting the condition of Human Rights is one of the Key conditions for membership in the EU", preferring again to speak from the point of view of General Principles, on the occasion of an untimely question on Serbia (which is not even a candidate yet)...
- "Turkey" has, "first of all", to fullfil (EU) Copenhagen criteria". Bevause, currently, none of them is fullfiled by Turkey", New EU Parliament's President, denounced, speaking later to a group of Journalists, including "EuroFora".
In particular, on Human Rights : - "We (EU) can never forget Human Rights", because "this is at the very Foundations of the EU", Buzek added.
On the contrary, when he referred to EU Enlargment for the "Western Balkans Countries ", Buzek appeared upbeat, finding "promising situations", despite "difficulties" in the Past, since "Countries are queuing to become EU members", and this "generated changes", as he said.
As for Russia, Buzek observed that it was a "very important" country, located "in the same Continent", Europe, "close to our borders", and "we need eachother". "But Russia' has 'differend poblems : "They claim that their system is Democratic, but rules are differend", and we must be "aware of such differencies", fex. "on Human Rights", that we can't ignore, as he said;
Concerning China, where a journalist observed that the recipient of EU Parliament's latest "Sakharov prize" for freedom of thought is "still in prison", Buzek found that since the 1999 events in Tien Amin square, "we see differencies on Human Rights still today", and expressed his "support" for those who try to ameliorate the situation.
On the contrary, speaking recently to "EuroFora" he strongly supported the idea for an EU - Ukraine cooperation, fex. between Airbus and Antonov, in order to build a less costly but more performant than the old and problematic A400M, new Military Transport Airplane : - "They (Ukranian Antonov Company) can certainly do it. I'm sure they can. It's a good Idea, and I'd be glad if it was done", he told us. (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/airbusantonov.html )