'You are a disgrace': Trio of right-wing European politicians tear into Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful this week from three right-wing European politicians at the EU Parliament.

“Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy,” said German MEP Christine Anderson on Wednesday. “Please spare us your presence.”

“Based on article 195, I would like to point out that it would have been appropriate for Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to address this house, according to article 144,” she said.

“An article, which was specifically designed to debate the violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law which is clearly the case with Mr. Trudeau.”

She tore into Trudeau and accused him of trampling on “fundamental rights” and persecuting citizens who oppose him.

????|Yesterday, Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau visited the #EU Parliament to give a speech. I took the opportunity to give him an appropriate "welcome" there. Short, concise and right hitting the bull's eye! #ID pic.twitter.com/qpcQyGTixQ

— Christine Anderson (@AndersonAfDMdEP) March 24, 2022

Anderson is a member of the Alternative for Germany party, a radical-right party that is anti-immigration and German nationalists. The party was under surveillance by some German states as a suspected extremist group, although that was later blocked by the courts in advance of elections.

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic on Tuesday said Trudeau was engaging in “dictatorship of the worst kind” by using the Emergencies Act to stop the Ottawa convoy protests.

“Canada, once a symbol of the modern world, has become a symbol of civil rights violations under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months,” he said.

PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada ?? has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around the?it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind. pic.twitter.com/FZuc6aDZ1I

— Mislav Kolakusic MEP ???? (@mislavkolakusic) March 23, 2022

Kolakusic sits as an independent in the European Parliament and has railed against COVID-19 restrictions since early in the pandemic. Earlier this year he accused French President Emmanuel Macron of murder through vaccine mandates.

Lastly, Romanian MEP Christian Terhes refused to even attend Trudeau’s speech in the EU Parliament.

“You can’t come to teach Putin’s democracy lessons from the European Parliament, when you pass with horse hoofs over your own citizens who demand that their fundamental rights be respected,” he said in a lengthy Facebook post.

He is the only sitting member of the centre-right Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party.

Trudeau is in Europe meeting with leader in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.