Women murdered and disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship will meet with EU officials on Monday to seek support for the expanded DNA test to identify missing children.

A delegation from the campaign group Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo will condemn the efforts of far-right President Javier Milei to remove the search for missing persons. They will seek to continue their efforts to find children of missing persons who have been illegally adopted, many of which may be in Europe.

"Under the guise of economic reform, the Argentine government is taking this opportunity to demolish and compensate many institutions dedicated to finding missing persons, such as the National Identity Rights Commission, which are committed to tracking the children taken away," Claudia Poblete said.

After her parents were murdered and murdered and disappeared under a dictatorship in 1976-83, her biological family discovered one of Argentina's 139 "recovered grandsons".

“For more than 20 years, Abuelas has obtained state funds to continue searching for the kidnapped grandson because the state has the responsibility to find the missing persons,” she said.

"One of the goals of this trip to Brussels is to explore whether new funds can be conducted for searches. There are hundreds of people between the ages of 45 and 49 who may be anywhere in the world, even in Europe, and they don't know that they were kidnapped as kidnapped."

After the 1976 coup, Argentina's army was designed to destroy the potential opposition, and eventually 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, almost all civilians. The pregnant prisoners stay alive until they give birth and then are murdered. During his imprisonment, at least 500 newborns were taken from their parents and given to military couples to raise as their own identities.

By 1983, hundreds of "adoptions" had been exposed. But it wasn't until 2021 when the Argentine government sent hundreds of DNA testing kits to consulates around the world that it worked hard to name it an unknown victim, and found that many of them didn't know their true identities.

That changed when Milei took office in 2023, with human rights groups alerting him of his attempt to rewrite history and overturn a long-standing consensus on the crime of dictatorship.

Since he came to power, Miley ordered the closure of the National Identity Commission's special investigation department; funding the national genetic database; disbanding the investigation and analysis team of the armed forces archives; and restricting access to official documents of the Ministry of Defense and Security.

Last December, Brussels’ travel appeal called on Estela de Carlotto, the founder of the 94-year-old Abuelas (grandmother) group.

Horacio Corti Pietragalla, a kidnapped by the military who served as Secretary of Human Rights in Argentina from 2019 to 2023, said: "More than 250 people did not know that they were missing children, many of whom live in Europe today, in Spain, in France, and especially in Italy, and we must continue our efforts."

In Italy, a country with deep cultural ties to Argentina, dozens of missing children may be alive, according to Abuelas, with Democrats filing two parliamentary motions urging the government to urge Milei to urge cuts to funding.

Italy's far-right government failed to respond, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni granting Mili citizenship last year with his Italian family roots. The move has aroused anger among opposition politicians.

"The last grandson discovered by Abuelas is also a European citizen," said Jorge Ithurburu, president of Marzo24, a Rome-based group representing relatives of victims of dictatorship.

"They were found in Europe, in the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. A person who recently discovered had one brother living in the Canary Islands and the other had two brothers in Rome. Looking for grandchildren, because they disappeared, also means looking for European citizens."

Martín Moze, coordinator of Abuelas in Barcelona, ​​said: "We will continue our search throughout Europe. We will bring Abuelas' voice to every corner of the world. We will shout their message in the streets: grandchildren and granddaughter, we are looking for you."