The report cites a "fundamental breach of NHS values" in which targets were prioritised above everything else.
Israel's defence minister Moshe Ya'alon later described the soldier's actions as being "in utter breach of IDF values and of our code of ethics in combat".
The mullahs and the rural traditionalists saw it as a breach of traditional values that had to be resisted at all costs.
Last Wednesday, the European Parliament voted by an overwhelming margin 448 to 197, with 48 abstentions that there is a "clear risk of a serious breach" of the values described in Article 2 by the Hungarian government headed by Viktor Orbán.
It requires, first, that four-fifths of the members of the Council determine there is a "clear risk of a serious breach" of the values referred to in Article 2; then, that the European Council, acting by unanimity, determines there is a "serious and persistent breach" of those values; and finally, that the Council, acting by qualified majority (i.e., a super-majority), then suspends those rights.
Commenting on the incident, an Israeli army spokesman, Peter Lerner, said: "The Israel Defence Forcesviews this incident as a grave breach of IDF values, conduct and standards of military operations.
The vote came after Judith Sargentini, a Dutch MEP, presented a report, commissioned by the parliament, that concluded there was a "clear breach of the values of our union," including a "systematic threat to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights" and recommended initiating Article 7 proceedings.
"The burqa is a sign of the submission of women that surpasses its religious aspect and could be considered as a breach of republican values," the agency, the High Authority for the Fight Against Discrimination and for Equality, said in a ruling, the daily newspaper La Croix reported Thursday.
She said her report "comprehensively lists" attacks on the media, minorities, and the rule of law, that represent "a clear breach of the values of our union".
Such a stance would be in breach of all values that the EU professes to uphold and all the agreements it signed within the framework of ENP and Euro-Mediterranean Partnership with its southern neighbors ranging from Tunisia, to Morocco, to Egypt.
