2006.10.23 - Offences to Lívia Járóka, MEP by a Bulgarian officer
[inline:1=Lívia Járóka MEP]Lívia Járóka, Member of the European Parliament and Roma person, has been recently nominated for a prize on "Justice and Fundamental Rights" by the magazine of the European Parliament, but her nomination was commented by Dimitar Stoyanov, a Bulgarian observer in the European Parliament in an offencive and racist way in an e-mail circulated between MEPs.
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Subject: RE: Please support Lívia Járóka!!!
Well, gentlemen, I must disagree with you. In my country there're tenths of thousands gypsy girls way more beautiful than this honorable one. In fact if you're in the right place on the right time you even can by one (around 12-13 years old) to be your loving wife. The best of them are very expensive - up to 5 000 euros a piece, wow! Of course this is a crime according to the Penal code, Chapter Four (Crimes against the marriage, the family and the youth), Section II (Crimes against the youth), Article 191/3, punishable with 2 to 5 years of imprisonment, but I don't think that most of the so-called "Roma rights organizations" even now about this article, and they in fact don't care (call them what you want, they care only about anti-discrimination laws' articles, because they pay, and crime doesn't you now)!!!
This is another story though.
So let's get back to Miss Laroka's nomination. Believe me, I've seen lots of gypsy women, but all that are at her age are much skinnier. Doesn't she sharing the terrible suffering her people are bearing all around Europe, the poverty, the miserable conditions and the unemployment???? Well, I guess when you're an MEP you have to put some weight on you. Have to look serious.
Thirdly, she already has received one award this year. But wait - for a youth leader? This honorable lady is almost 32 years old for the God sake! Most youth organizations are accepting members up to 26. My party is considered liberal in this criterion as our deadline is 30. Honorable Miss Laroka still does not fit. I don't know, there're different kinds of growth, maybe she fits in one of them.
With these justifications I won't support Miss Livia Laroka's nomination. Still she has my deepest regards and I wish her luck and success!!
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Hans-Gert Poettering, the group chairman for EPP-ED at the European parliament has commented as follows:
As it is already well known, Mrs Lívia Járóka MEP (EPP-ED, HU) was nominated by the Brussels-based Parliament Magazine as a candidate for their "MEP Awards 2006".
Dimitar Stoyanov, a Bulgarian observer in the European Parliament, used this opportunity to attack Mrs Járóka - and the 10 to 15 million European Roma she represents - in a disgraceful and openly racist way which is contradictory to all European values.
Today at the plenary session of the European Parliament Doris Pack MEP, President of the Women's Group in the European People's Party, strongly condemned the Bulgarian observer.
"We call upon the relevant Bulgarian authorities to make every effort to recall Mr Stoyanov from the European Parliament as there is no place for him among European politicians", declared Poettering.