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We are asking the European Parliament to investigate the impact of the pandemic in residential institutions. It should investigate why many people got sick and died in residential institutions and how countries failed to protect them.
We and 2 organisations (European Public Services Union and AGE Platform) made this demand in a letter today. We ask the European Parliament to conduct official European inquiry. The inquiry must discover what happened and set rules, so it doesn’t happen again.
Read the full statement calling for the inquiry [104 KB PDF]
Update 7 July 2020
After sending the above letter, 88 Members of the European Parliament co—signed the public statement below calling the Parliament to investigate using “all the means at [their] disposal”.