Paris violates basic rights

France has invited certain countries to attend a ministerial summit on illegal immigration on September 6. Among those invited are Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain and Greece. In fact the idea behind the exclusive talks is to qualify the freedom of movement of the Roma within the EU, writes the left-liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung: "The major homelands of the Roma - Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia - are not invited. Brussels is reacting helplessly and checking if it is lawful to repatriate thousands of Roma from France to Bulgaria and Romania, although officially it claims that 'no one should be deported just because they're a Roma'. So Paris and Rome are being called on to do the natural thing, which however is apparently anything but natural: to respect 'human rights'. ... However a continent that has experienced the Holocaust cannot allow itself under any circumstances to divide its citizens into classes or group them in categories of desirable and undesirable, or ultimately of valuable and valueless people."

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