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European Parliament Greens accused of ‘hiding harassment cases in their own ranks’

Chair of the EU Parliament’s Budgetary Control committee Monika Hohlmeier, who is also a member of the EPP group to which Fine Gael is aligned, has accused the EU’s Green Party group of hypocrisy by failing to combat instances of historical and ongoing harassment of its own membership within the parliament.

 

MEP Hohlmeier was referring to allegations recently highlighted by Michael Curzon writing in The European Conservative.

It was reported there that Terry Reintke, the Green group’s co-leader in the European Parliament, has “gone “into hiding” following a wave of serious questions about her and her colleague Philippe Lamberts’ handling of what has been described as “massive MeToo allegations.”

In raising the issue today, MEP Hohlmeier claimed in remarks heavily imbued with sarcasm and irony that:

“The Green Group love to submit motions of high moral value. There must be transparency everywhere. Ethical standards must be raised to truly paradisaical heights of infallibility. Of course the checks must be carried out primarily by green-led NGO’s.”

“The EPP deplore the double standard of the greens European Parliament group constantly calling for stronger official European Parliament’s anti-harassment policies but failing to implement the necessary procedures for such policies within their own group.”

As Michael Curzon further noted, “Green employees have already sent an open letter to their bosses, “noting their refusal to take part in the downplaying of our leadership, which does not do justice to the seriousness of the situation.”

Curzon reports that the letter was signed by 100 current and former employees.

This is not the first time that the Greens have faced allegations of mishandling complaints of serious allegations.

A 2018 investigation by Australian news network ABC revealed that a number of women who complained to the Green party there about sexual misconduct alleged the party had failed them by putting its party reputation ahead of their welfare:

“A long-running ABC investigation has uncovered multiple claims by women that the party mismanaged their complaints about alleged sexual misconduct and harassment.”

Closer to home similar allegations arose here in 2020 when the Irish Examiner reported that “Eamon Ryan’s party has been plagued by allegations of toxicity, sexual harassment, and bullying for months, amid a slew of high-profile resignations.”

That report went on to note that, “Councillors, former general election candidates, and youth members have all left the party this year, complaining they did not feel supported, comfortable, or welcome due to ongoing issues with harassment and bullying both in WhatsApp groups and in person.”
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remembering solohead ambush
20 days ago

finna gael finna fail greens who Irish people did not vote in as a government but conned by michael martin and leo the leak vodka cute whoor politics needs to be STOPPED NOW before we become a non Irish state,watch this space you been warned

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Pam
20 days ago

Pro trans, anti woman party.

Jps
20 days ago

An extract from a history of the Green party below. Be warned its graphic.
From the party’s first convention in the southeastern city of Karlsruhe, participants spoke of pedophilia as a human right. At the 1980 conference, members of the Greens advocated for the removal of two sections of Germany’s penal code that make sex between adults and children illegal. Regional chapters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin passed similar decisions.

“City Indian” children from the Indian Commune in Nuremberg protesting for “children’s rights” including “the right to sexual self-determination”

Then there were the experiments. Among them were the “Indian Commune” in Nuremberg, where homeless children were invited to live with adults. Some of the children, referred to as “Stadtindianer” (city Indians), were reportedly subjected to sexual abuse. They were also dispatched to protest in favor of the legalization of pedophilia, sometimes at Green Party events. Then there was the Kentler Project, which sent Berlin street children to live with pedophiles. Program head Helmut Kentler held a top position at Berlin’s center for educational research. He believed that sex between children and adults was entirely benign.

Finally, there was the anti-authoritarian kindergraden or Kinderladen. These schools aimed to put Reich’s teachings into practice, as a sort of social reconditioning experiment for German children. A lax attitude towards sexual contact between adults and children prevailed. The Kinderladen promised such radical transformation that Cohn-Bendit spent two years working in one. He wrote a rather graphic and disturbing account of the experience in the August 1976 edition of the now defunct publication das da:

“My constant flirt with all the children soon took on erotic characteristics. I could really feel how from the age of five the small girls had already learnt to make passes at me. It’s hardly believable. Most of the time I was fairly defenseless.”

Declan Cooney
20 days ago
Reply to  Jps

Cohen-Bendit was a soccer pundit on French TV as recent as the last Soccer World Cup in spite of decades of promoting this deviancy.(not soccer!!) A darling of the radical left “Petit Paris” media ! An untouchable !! Or one of the “protected parasites” class.

James Mcguinness
20 days ago

What a surprise, they should change their logo to the hammer and sickle. Shower of pedos as well.

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