European Parliament
John Bowis (PPE-DE ). –
Commissioner, if you really have not seen the evidence of the caged beds in Romania, I refer you to the front page story of a recent edition of the London
Sunday Times
and to the well-documented cases published by the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre. I hope that you will say to Romania, as indeed to the other countries that have engaged in this barbaric practice, that caged beds are inappropriate for children, the confused elderly or for people with mental health problems in any civilised country, and certainly in a Member State of this European Union.

