Speakers Warn Conservatives of EU Attacks to Democracy and Freedom

By | December 5, 2024

MADRID, December 6 (C-Fam) “The greatest threat to life and family in the world today is the European Union”, C-Fam Vice President for Legal Studies, Stefano Gennarini, told conservatives from around the world at the tenth Transatlantic Summit.

Gennarini explained that through a common foreign policy, the European Union, and the U.S. State Department are exporting not just gender ideology, but also an “anti-democratic, untransparent model of governance through bureaucratic and judicial mechanisms.” This undemocratic “multi-stakeholder” model threatens the sovereign prerogatives of EU member states, and entire regions in Africa, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the Spanish Senate, with the coat of arms of Spain in the background, Gennarini recalled the contribution of the Spanish Dominican Friars of the sixteenth century to the development of human rights. He highlighted Bartolomé de las Casas’ defense of the sovereignty of the native peoples of the American continent. He suggested that defense of authentic human rights begins with the defense of the sovereignty of peoples from foreign intervention or interference.

Gennarini’s concerns about Western foreign policy were echoed by other speakers at the event hosted by the Political Network for Values, a gathering conservative politicians and non-governmental leaders from across the globe.

Human rights lawyer, Neydy Casillas, co-founder of the Global Center for Human Rights described how European countries have corrupted the Organization of American States through strategic donations. She said Spain, the European Union, and Western foundations give money to abortion and LGBT groups that litigate cases at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. The cases themselves are very often shaky or even “fraudulent,” Casillas said. But they progress in the inter-American system of justice nonetheless because the same Western countries and foundations who fund the abortion and LGBT groups are also funding the Court and the Commission. Casillas said this was a conflict of interest that results in fraud and injustice.

Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International, described the European Union’s plans to force countries to accept abortion rights, gender ideology and a broad “sexual rights agenda” for children through a binding treaty known as the Samoa Agreement. The treaty opens up EU markets to eighty developing countries from Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean region in exchange for a commitment to adopt “sexual and reproductive health” policies domestically and their promise to vote along the same lines as the European Union whenever such issues arise in the UN General Assembly. The treaty specifically refers to other agreements that define sexual and reproductive health as including abortion, LGBT issues, and sexual rights for children.

Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation connected the challenge of protecting life and family to the broader struggle to uphold freedom and democracy in the digital globalist system.

“Freedom in 2024 is much more complex than in the 21st century,” Richards said. The fight for freedom against totalitarianism in the 20th century took place along a clear demarcation line between Western democracies and communist countries. Today, he explained, there is a “strange fusion of the private sector and public sector” that is undermining self-government and “colluding to alienate us.”

For a brief period, the hard left in Spain tried to keep the Transatlantic Summit from using the Spanish Senate. The effort was obviously defeated.

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