The document was written by the British Labour MEP Claude Moraes to address the “racism” allegedly experienced by Italian socialist MEP Cécile Kyenge. First elected to the European Parliament in 1999, Claude was the first Indian MEP.
Claude has continuously campaigned for open borders as well as organising legal test cases in UK and the European Courts.
Kyenge, of Congolese descent, was the Minister for Integration and served as Italy’s first black woman in a cabinet post. On 25 May 2014 she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She supported the introduction of a Jus soli law to grant citizenship to children of migrants born on Italian soil.
The black politician is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, an endeavour with zero support in her African country of origin.
The Guardian reported that the EP resolution for reparations was approved with 535 in favor, and 80 against with 44 abstentions.
The resolution clearly adovacates that reparations be made to Afro-Europeans for “crimes against humanity during European colonialism”, a surprising move since an EU country such as Poland had no colonies.
The European Parliament’s press release about the resolution noted: “Additionally, people of African descent should be taken into account more in current funding programmes and in the next multiannual financial framework (2021-2027).”
This may become a costly exercise for European taxpayers. Giles Merritt, the founder and chairman of Friends of Europe, published an op-ed on the Friends of Europe website, under the title “Missing: A beefed-up plan for Africa’s population explosion”, arguing that Europe’s plan is wholly inadequate in terms of Africa’s problems.
“The ‘funding gap’ between Africa’s needs and what it gets is estimated to be €2,3 trillion yearly,” he says.
The European Commission’s plan to funnel €44 billion in new investment into African business start-ups, labelled by some as a “Marshall Plan for Africa’” to leverage €3,3 billion in EU seed money into fifteen times more private sector funding, is not realistic, he added.
“Half of sub-Saharan Africans ‒ 600 million people ‒ either don’t have reliable electricity, if they have it at all. A third of the region’s children will never go to school.”
Also the notion of Africa replacing China as the factory of the world, is a pipe dream because manufacturing in Africa has shrunk since its high point in 2007.