Eva Kaili expressed her intention to move and live permanently in Italy, the complaint that neither her party nor the EU supported her, but also her criticisms of Roberta Metzola in an interview with the Italian Corriere Della Sera.
Eva Kaili, like the others involved, will not be a candidate for the June European elections. Technically nothing would stop her, but the Investigator has banned her from speaking publicly about the investigation, so she can’t explain and cast shadows about Qatargate.
On the sidelines of the work in Strasbourg, Eva Kaili spoke to Corriere Della Sera. saying initially: “I find the silence of the entire European Parliament outrageous on such an unconstitutional restriction of my right to defend myself and speak about all that has been leaked and is being artfully plotted against me.”
The reason she can’t be a candidate
He then emphasized: “President Roberta Metzola and my S&D party, instead of defending 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 MPs. A dangerous precedent has been set that allows the judiciary to interfere in politics, irreparably undermining the integrity of the European institution. And recently, the Belgian government, seeing itself as the custodian of – who knows what – thought it had the right to disrupt an event in Brussels organized by European conservatives and reformers.”
Eva Kaili can run again in the European elections, but since she is banned from speaking publicly about her case, she cannot explain her side to her voters: “I was hoping that the citizens of the EU could see the truth before they vote in June, but the ban on speaking about this case makes it impossible for me to even run,” she explains.
So “I’m going to focus on technology policy, and if things go my way, I see my future working on behalf of women and children who are victims of system failures.”
In Italy there is a word “guarantee”
When asked whether he will remain in Belgium or return to Greece, he surprised journalist Giuseppe Guastella, saying: “I will probably move to Italy.” To the tag “because your partner is Italian?”, Eva Kaili replied: “Because it is a country that I consider home for various reasons and because in Italy there is a beautiful word like ‘guarantee’ that should 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”.
Regarding the judicial path, which is particularly long, the former vice-president of the European Parliament answered: “In various higher courts: In Belgium for violations of the rights of parliamentarians and for my unjustified arrest and the bias of the Investigator. Another appeal concerns the ban on speaking to the press, which is a fundamental freedom, and then I am suing the European Parliament for violating my right to be heard and to defend myself as I requested a year ago.
I also started proceedings at the United Nations for violation of 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. A phrase by the Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos often comes to mind: “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”
