The Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) applauds the announcement made by the European Commissioner for Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights Viviane Reding voicing the European Commission (EC)’s condemnation of the website launched by the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), which it deems in flagrant contradiction with European principles concerning free circulation.
“We call on all citizens of The Netherlands not to follow this intolerance. Citizens should instead clearly state on the PVV’s website that Europe is a place of freedom,” the European Commissioner Viviane Reding stated, according to a press release posted on MAE’s official website. According to the same source, the European official’s statement comes as a response of steps Romania has taken, alongside Bulgaria and Poland, via its Embassy in The Hague and the Permanent Representation in Brussels, calling “for the adoption of the necessary steps, taking into consideration the overt discriminatory character of this website, which acts in violation of European regulations.”
The European Commission denounced on Friday a website set up by the Dutch far rightwing party PVV which incited to exposing “problems” caused by Eastern Europeans, calling on the Dutch people not to heed this call to “intolerance”, Mediafax reports. Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PPV) website “runs totally counter to [the] principles” of freedom and free circulation in Europe, the EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding stated, in a press release. “It is openly calling for people to be intolerant,” she argued. “We call on all citizens of The Netherlands not to follow this intolerance. Citizens should instead clearly state on the PVV’s website that Europe is a place of freedom. Intolerance has no place on our Continent,” Reding added, stressing that EC representatives stood for “an open Continent where citizens can move, work and study wherever they like”. “The citizens of the 27 EU Member States should feel at home no matter where they decide to move,” the European official concluded.
