The former vice-president of the European Parliament expresses her intention to move to Italy after, as she says, her party and the European Union did not defend her in the legal adventure she had regarding the Qatargate scandal. Eva Kaili.
“I find the silence of the entire European Parliament outrageous for such an unconstitutional restriction of my right to defend myself and to speak about everything that has been leaked and is artfully conspired against me,” says Ms. Kaili speaking to the Italian Corriere Dela Serra.
“President Roberta Metzola and my S&D party of the defense of the institutions tried, in the run-up to the elections, to hide their inability to respect the principles of the Union and to safeguard the freedoms and privileges of the parliamentarians,” he adds.
Answering the question about her plans for the future and whether at the end of her term in the European Parliament she will remain in Belgium or return to Greece, she says:
“I’ll probably move to Italy” and that’s because, as he says, Italy “is a country that I consider home for several reasons and because in Italy there is a beautiful word like ‘guarantee’ that needs to be translated all over Europe. In Italy there are some parties that oppose politically motivated trials and demand respect for the presumption of innocence regardless of the party of the accused”.
Eva Kaili concludes with a phrase by the Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos that often comes to her mind: “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds”, while she notes that in the legal battle she is fighting, a process has also started at the United Nations for violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child as the “Belgian authorities forcibly separated me from my two-year-old daughter. Something I don’t wish on any mother,” she says.
