Commiepartij Ransdorf: 'Schuld van GeenStijl'

Prague, August 13, 2013
Dear Sir,
I have received your letter concerning a Formal complaint against Mr. Miloslav Ransdorf, MEP, to be sent by you via e-mail on Monday, July 1, 2013 into Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia's Secretariat. In the light of the facts, I'd like to say the following:
. Neither your evaluation nor your description of the situation, as presented by your editorial board in your e-mail, correspond to the truth; on the contrary, we consider them as to be non-objective and manipulative ones.
. Not only me, but also some others, we are amazed by your journalist, Mr. Tom Staal, being not able - or he didn't wish to do so? - to find out the information (all freely available) showing the whereabouts of Mr. Miloslav Ransdorf, MEP, at the day in question, as well as every place of his activities of the day, where his paper would be addressed and the session with his presentation would have occurred.
. In accordance with generally valid MEP directions, it is possible to put the MEP's sign on the list within every time between 07.00 am and 10.00 pm. Given by relevant direction, it is not due to the financial compensation for him/her to be presented in the European Parliament; instead, it is the funds to cover the costs for his/her stay during the time of the sessions in progress. It serves as a proof just for these purposes.
. We don't consider to be standard if a journalist, together with a cameraman, keeps close on somebody's heels all the way to his/her flat's door, even, although partly, prevent him/her from going on into his/her home.
. In this matter, we consider as important the pointing out by the EP Head of Press Unit, Ms. Marjory van den Broeke, that by your staff members' bearing, the framework put in the relevant Ethic Codex has been exceeded. If the aim of either a private TV or any public one is to contribute towards a political culture or a social morale to be increased, the TV itself cannot violate either the laws or the ethic standards in its behaviour. We agree with the content of the letter to be sent to the President of the European parliament, Mr. Martin Schulz by Mr. Ransdorf, by which Mr. Ransdorf, MEP, expresses his astonishment (a complaint) over your journalist's bearing. We support Mr. Ransdorf's attitude towards the case to be solved as well as such the means to be used which could exclude similar incidents in the future.
There are some critical positions towards both the current form and the functioning of the European Union; however, we consider the process of European integration as a sensible and required objective. It is our interest to draw this process nearer to the citizens of the Union as well as of the Europe as a whole; not to either discredit or dismantle it. We believe our public must get the adequate information, even if to be critical; not the information to be of the gutter press or manipulative one, but, first and foremost, to be objective and balanced information about activities of the European Parliament as well as of its deputies.
Only the citizens to be informed just in this way would be willing to put their trust into the future of unifying Europe.
Sincerely,
JUDr. Vojtěch Filip (wiki)
Chairman of Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia's
Central Committee