Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000314/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Fabrice Leggeri (PfE), Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE)
On 10 January 2025, the European Union Agency for Asylum promoted the Islamic veil by posting an image with a little girl wearing a head covering in its umpteenth post on X[1] advocating for ‘safe and legal pathways’ to Europe for migrants.
Both this act of bowing the knee to radical Islam and this call for a flood of migrants are unacceptable.
As far back as September 2022, the Commission published a visual featuring a veiled girl to promote the European Erasmus+ programme. In response to the ensuing outrage, it claimed it was ‘an administrative error’. Ursula von der Leyen then decided that any future publication of visuals for the institution should be subject to ‘political control’ by her cabinet[2].
That has not been the case: the Commission published 35 visuals with women or girls wearing veils between July 2021 and February 2024 (not including any publications from Parliament or other EU institutions)[3].
- 1.Does the new Commission intend to ask the European Union Agency for Asylum to take down its post, like it has previously done with a different agency[4]?
- 2.Does the Commission intend to continue to promote the Islamic veil in the name of ‘inclusion, diversity and unity in the EU’ even though it is not in line with European values?
Submitted: 24.1.2025
- [1] https://x.com/EUAsylumAgency/status/1877596238045950252
- [2] https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/fillette-voilee-enfin-un-controle-politique-des-images-de-l-ue-07-10-2022-2492870_20.php
- [3] https://x.com/F_Desouche/status/1771235765097287745
- [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-001114-ASW_EN.html