After receiving no response ten days after sending a letter asking the European Commission’s coordinator for combating antisemitism and promoting Jewish life, Katharina von Schnurbein, to react to Elon Musk’s fascist salute at the inauguration of US President Donald Trump (see EUROPE 13567/8), Per Clausen MEP (The Left, Danish) has taken further action.
Saying he was “both surprised and worried” in a press release published on Wednesday 5 February, the MEP announced that the previous day he had sent a new letter, this time to the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, as well as a written parliamentary question to which the Commission is obliged to respond.
Although Per Clausen considers that further silence from the Commission would be astonishing, he stated: “Should that happen, then we will need to dust of the full parliamentary toolbox we have at our disposal. We should not simply pretend something like this didn’t happen. History has shown that this is not an effective strategy”.
To see the letter: https://aeur.eu/f/fdj
To see the parliamentary question: https://aeur.eu/f/fdk (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)