Strasbourg 19.02.2023 MEPs call for serious consideration to be given to delivering fighter jets, helicopters, appropriate missile systems and a substantial increase in munitions to Ukraine. (Image: European Parliament, Strasbourg). "The future of Ukraine will not be decided in Berlin, Paris, Brussels or Washington. Only Ukrainians decide about the future of 🇺🇦. We will not…
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Istanbul Convention: battle for values
Strasbourg 14.02.2023 The European Union should ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, regarding the Court of Justice opinion of 2021. (Image: illustration). Members of the European Parliament will discuss the EU’s accession to the @coe's #IstanbulConvention on #ViolenceAgainstWomen from 1pm CET today. 6 EU countries – 🇧🇬🇨🇿ðŸ‡ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡±ðŸ‡»ðŸ‡±ðŸ‡¹ðŸ‡¸ðŸ‡° – have yet to…
Iran: MEPs call for additional sanctions
Strasbourg 19.01.2023 All those responsible for human rights violations should face EU sanctions and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps should be on the European Union terrorist list, Members of the European Parliament urge, during the January Plenary in Strasbourg (pictured). Iran: all those responsible for human rights violations should face EU sanctions and the Islamic…
EU Sakharov prize 2022
Strasbourg 14.12.2022 European Parliament groups leaders have awarded the brave people of Ukraine, represented by their president, elected leaders and civil society, the 2022 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. #EU This year #SakharovPrize denies the very idea of role of individual in creation of history. Collective replaced individual. pic.twitter.com/7ieKO6LlkZ — Anna van Densky (@AnnaVanDensky)…
MEPs: nuclear joins “green” energies
Strasbourg 07.07.2022 The European Parliament has rejected a motion to oppose the inclusion of nuclear and gas as environmentally sustainable economic activities. (Image above: illustration). Yesterday, we rejected an attempt from deluded environmentalist ideologues to end EU funding for gas and nuclear. The ECR Group will always fight to uphold sensible, holistic energy policy that…
Metsola:”Europe is future”
Strasbourg 09.05.2022 The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola addressed the opening speech of The State of the Union 2022 at the European University Institute in Florence. In her speech ‘Is Europe fit for the next generation?’, she encouraged European citizens and leaders to believe, to be confident and to use this difficult moment…
CoE debates Ukraine
Strasbourg 13.03.2022 The consequences of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine will be the focus of an extraordinary plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in hybrid mode on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 March 2022. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will address the Assembly via…
EP: Macron on Defence Union
Strasbourg 19.01.2022 This semester will also lead to the adoption of the “strategic compass”, the definition of “our own security doctrine in addition to NATO”, and a real “strategy in terms of industry, defense and technological independence », the whole to find «a Europe power of the future». EN DIRECT | Dans le cadre de…
EU: Macron highlights priorities
Strasbourg 19.20.2021 Anna van Densky President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola and President of France Emmanuel Macron held a press conference on Wednesday at 14.45, after the debate on the priorities of France’s Presidency of the Council. (Image: illustration) Défendre nos démocraties, faire progresser la souveraineté des peuples, être les garants de l’État de…
Europarliament: Roberta Metsola elected president
Strasbourg 18.01.2022 Maltese centre-right politician Roberta Metsola succeed the Italian David Sassoli in Strasbourg and Brussels, at the head of the European Parliament. Several candidates have been promoted to replace the Italian Socialist David Sassoli, who died on January 11 from the complications of myeloma cancer at the age of 65 and whose mandate was…
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