At the end of the mandate “I will probably move to Italy. Because it is a country that I consider home for various reasons and because in Italy there is a beautiful word like “guarantee” which should be translated throughout Europe”. This was said in an interview with the Corriere by Eva Kaili, MEP and former vice-president of the Brussels Parliament, arrested in […]
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At the end of the mandate “probably I will move to Italy. Because it is a country that I consider home for several reasons and because in Italy there is a beautiful word like “guaranteeism” which should be translated throughout Europe”. To say it in an interview with Courier And Eva KailiMEP and former vice-president of the Brussels Parliament, arrested in 2022 and still investigated for corruption in the Qatargate investigation: bags of banknotes for a total of six hundred thousand euros in cash were found in his apartment. The Greek politician, expelled from the Hellenic Socialist Party (Pasok), is engaged to an Italian, Francesco Giorgi, a parliamentary assistant who was also arrested for the alleged bribes. But she says she is fond of our country above all for the attention shown by the ruling class towards those under investigation: “In Italy there are some parties that they oppose to the politically motivated trials and ask for respect for the presumption of innocence independent of the party of the accused person,” it states.
Based on a provision issued by the investigating judge, in Kaili It is not allowed to release public statements on the investigation involving her. And for this reason, she explains, she will not stand again in the European elections: “I hoped that EU citizens could see the truth before voting in June, but the ban on talking about this case makes it impossible for me to even be a candidate. I will focus on the technological policy, and if things go as I expect, I see my future in my commitment to women and children.” She then thanks some Italian public figures for the support they have shown her: “I will always be grateful to the Honourable Deborah Bergamini of Forza Italia, the only politician from a party other than mine who questioned these methods and came to visit me in my darkest times, and to Riccardo Nouryof Amnesty International Italy, who dared to compare Belgium to Belarus for the methods used against my daughter.”
