Activities of anti-democratic parties in the EU

26.6.2013

Question for written answer E-007497-13
to the Commission
Rule 117
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (ALDE)

The freedom EU citizens enjoy to live and work wherever they want is one of the most valuable rights guaranteed by the EU. The relevant provisions are set out in Articles 49 to 55 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. According to media reports, in January 2013 an extreme right-wing, racist and xenophobic party which employs in its own country (Greece), in modified but still recognisable form, Nazi symbols banned in Germany opened an office in Germany.

Does the Commission see a contradiction between freedom of establishment, on the one hand, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, on the other?

OJ C 55 E, 26/02/2014