The recent treatment of Roma people in France was appalling and cannot go unchallenged. Their rights have been abused for populist, electoral reasons by a government that is fast losing support
(Martin Schulz, President of Socialist group, in the faction meeting, 01 09 2010 )
We lose the right to criticize others on human rights issues, when we breach them ourselves
(Adrian Severin, Vice-president of socialist group, commenting Roma deportation in France, 01 09 2010 )
Our faction defends Roma rights for a long time. We are the only ones who strongly reacted on deportation. The proposals of our faction were ignored, money wasted. Now we need concrete action to help people involved in deportation
(Claude Moraes, Fight on racism intergroup in EP chair, social democrat, 01 09 2010)
