Particularly emphasized the serious impact on fundamental rights, noting that private and family life is affected while threatening the rights of children, women, journalists and LGBTKI+ community, under the guise of protecting national identity. “It is an old, rotten ideological product,” he said characteristically, pointing out that the tool of heresy is a necessary means of pressure and finds it absolutely agreement.
Concluding his intervention, the Vice President of the Left (LEFT) at the EP assured Commissioner McGrath that the Left will stand by the European Commission, “as long as you do not go back to the defense of the rule of law and fundamental rights”.
Following is the whole intervention of Kostas Arvanitis:Madam President, Mr. Commissioner,
The situation in Slovakia is coming to meet the negative course for the rule of law in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece. And this is deeply concerned. And there is a word we will agree with. Corruption. Corruption threatens democracy. The recent constitutional revision of the Slovak government is obviously threatening equality, the integrity of the administration of justice. It undermines the legal protection of the financial interests of our Union from criminal acts. These reforms are directly against the rule of law, democracy and the protection of fundamental human rights in Slovakia. They limit the application of European acquis and international conditions, affecting private and private family life. I am particularly worried about the impact on children, women, journalists, the LGBTKI community, whose rights are threatened under the guise of protecting national identity. Old rotten ideological product. Mr. Commissioner The tool of the sectarianism finds me in agreement. And of course I have to tell you that the left will be by your side as you do not back. Thank you very much.