MEPs debated and voted on a resolution last week on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Parliament vote, strongly pushed for by the Greens/EFA group, is in response to ongoing human rights violations, internment and forced labour of more than one million Uyghurs in China’s autonomous…
Earlier this year, over one million citizens in the EU signed the European Citizens’ Initiative “Minority SafePack”, which asks for the EU to strengthen the protection of the cultural and linguistic diversity in the union. Following this, MEPs will today vote on a resolution that corresponds to the Minority SafePack. The resolution states that cultural…
The European Commission has presented new proposals for the reform ofEuropol and a strategy to combat terrorism. Europol has just beenreprimanded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Now it isto be allowed to collect large amounts of data on non-suspects such ascell-mast data. In addition, the EU Commission’s counter-terrorismstrategy advocates, among other things, facial…
The S&D Group in the European Parliament has expressed “serious concerns” about the leadership of Frontex, the EU’s border agency. We repeat our call for Executive Director Leggeri to resign and call on the Commission to act. Birgit Sippel, S&D spokesperson on migration, said: “Last week, the Executive Director of Frontex failed to provide the European…
Martin Schirdewan MEP, co-president of The Left in the European Parliament & member of the EU Parliament’s UK Coordination Group has given his take on the latest developments in the negotiations between the EU & the British government. He said, “We have heard from Michel Barnier that there has been no significant movement on the fundamental…
Germany should immediately suspend delivering submarines to Turkey: This is what more than 50 German and Greek Members of the European Parliament demand of German chancellor Angela Merkel in a joint letter sent today. The initiative was launched against the backdrop of the European Council meeting on 10 December. At the meeting, EU leaders will…
On Friday 11 December the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) of the European Parliament will hear from seven leading specialists in cancer prevention about the effect the environment can have on everybody’s risk of developing cancer, including radiation, air pollution, exposure to chemicals and pesticides, and being exposed to carcinogens at work. Campaigners hope…
The World Vapers’ Alliance staged a ‘covid-friendly’ demonstration at the European Parliament to highlight the importance of vaping to beat cancer in the EU. The demonstration coincided with a meeting of the Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer, at which a number of MEPs highlighted the potential of vaping in addressing the harm of tobacco…
“The detention and ensuing imprisonment of Belsat Journalists Ms. Katsyaryna Andreyeva, Ms. Darya Chultsova, Mr. Dzmitry Krauchuk, Mr. Artsyom Bahaslauski and Mr. Dzmitry Soltan for exposing illegal police brutality is neither justified nor constitutional. We condemn the campaign of brutality and intimidation and demand the immediate release of illegally detained journalists.” The worsening human rights…
The European Economic and Social Committee says it is “unacceptable and contrary to EU fundamental values” that, due to legal and technical barriers still in place across Europe, not a single EU country is able to guarantee that elections are fully accessible to all The EESC is now calling on the European Parliament, the Council of the EU…
