WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3768/97 by Cristiana MUSCARDINI , Amedeo AMADEO , Marco CELLAI to the Commission. Paedophilia incidents in Brussels
Date: 1997-11-21
Institutions: AMADEO, CELLAI, European Parliament, MUSCARDINI
Subjects: Belgium, European school, child, competence of the Member States, fight against crime, judicial inquiry, legal system, national law, sexual violence

C 158/188

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

25. 5. 98

of unemployment, and specifically of how the long-term unemployed can be helped to cope with the transition
back into the workplace.

As the long-term unemployed make up a disproportionately high number of those out of work across the EU, it
seems that this is one area in which research could usefully be conducted with EU funding.

What  are  the  guidelines  for  determining  eligibility  for  European  funding  of  employment  initiatives,  how  are
these arrived at, and will the Commission undertake to review them in the light of this clear omission?

Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission

(19 December 1997)

It is true that in the past, it has been difficult to fund research on this area from the budget line dealing with labour
market analysis and policy (B3-4010). However, the heads of state and government agreed in Luxembourg in
November 1997 that Member States should adopt preventive and employability-oriented strategies built on early
identification  and  early  action.  This  has  been  strongly  supported  by  the  Parliament  in  its  report  on  the
employment guidelines and the Commission expects that employment guidelines will now be adopted before the
end of the year. To the extent that it reflects this policy strategy, it could be expected that the commentary on this
budget line would be suffiently flexible to allow for the funding of research into the psychological aspects of
unemployment, which clearly come under the heading of employability.

(98/C 158/254)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3763/97

by Edward Kellett-Bowman (PPE) to the Commission

(21 November 1997)

Subject: PHARE fund payments to Romania

Will the Commission please indicate:

1.  what sums under PHARE have been committed to Romania, and

2.  of those commitments, how much has actually been paid?

Answer given by Mr Van den Broek on behalf of the Commission

(16 December 1997)

Under the Phare programme, to date 741 MECU have been committed to Romania. Out of these, 434 MECU
have been paid.

(98/C 158/255)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3768/97

by Cristiana Muscardini (NI), Amedeo Amadeo (NI)
and Marco Cellai (NI) to the Commission

(21 November 1997)

Subject: Paedophilia incidents in Brussels

In view of the allegations of serious paedophilia incidents arising from the investigations being conducted at
Clovis Nursery School, which is run by an Italian company and attended by children of EU officials, will the
Commission seek to uncover the whole truth, bearing in mind that the grave offences in question, if they were
proven to have occurred, would discredit the image and good name of all the Community institutions?

›  Will  it  call  upon  the  company  running  (or  mismanaging)  the  Clovis  school  immediately  to  suspend  the

persons implicated?