What Jan-Christoph spoke about.

5 Oct

2021

DE Speech

Humanitarian situation in Tigray (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank the political groups, because we have already worked very hard this afternoon on a resolution that we want to adopt here in this Chamber. All the groups have been very constructive at this point. All the factions? No. A faction, which in particular acts as a defender of Christianity, has not intervened at all. But that's th…

16 Sep

2021

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The situation in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are talking about the Kakuma refugee camp. This is in northwest Kenya, in the border region with Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan. This refugee camp has been in existence since 1992, and there are more than 500,000 refugees in the region in total, 100,000 of whom live in this refugee camp, for example. This includes the refugee camp 300…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, Honourable High Representative! We last debated here a year ago, shortly after the explosion in the port of Beirut. Since then, the situation has only deteriorated, to be clear. I think we have a chance now. At least I have hope. When I heard that a new government was forming in Lebanon, I said: Okay, we need to seize this opportunity now. Above all, however, this new Lebanese gov…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I hear heads of state and government and also colleagues, here in the hall by the way, say that Europe must be protected from refugees. Ladies and gentlemen, what we need to protect are European values. And we protect European values by providing humanitarian corridors to people who fought alongside us for democracy…

8 Jul

2021

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The death penalty in Saudi Arabia, notably the cases of Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish and Abdullah al-Howaiti

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Mr President, Commissioner! We all know that Saudi Arabia is not a free and tolerant country. On the occasion, I recall that the 2015 Sakharov Prize winner Raif Badawi is still in detention. However, it is particularly abhorrent that minors are executed in Saudi Arabia. 17-year-old Mustafa al-Darwish paid for his participation in protests just over three weeks ago, on 15 June, with his life – exec…

6 Jul

2021

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Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2021-2027 - Integrated Border Management Fund: Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy 2021-2027 (debate)

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Madam President, dear Tanja Fajon, dear Commissioner! Today we are launching two funds to support Member States in their migration policy. I am consciously saying that we are doing this in support of the Member States, because with these funds we are also drawing the lessons from the migration crisis of 2015/16. As the Commissioner has just said, we have now consolidated the instruments that were …

6 Jul

2021

EN Speech

Situation in Tigray, Ethiopia (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, the situation in Tigray is dramatic, all colleagues said this already and despite the fact that the ceasefire from 28 June is a good step, we need a permanent ceasefire and we need the withdrawal of the foreign troops from the region. Our solidarity is with the people of Tigray in Ethiopia. We condemn the destruction of infrastructure, this is something very horrible. I mean, people …

6 Jul

2021

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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, We are voting today on the Connecting Europe Facility and I would like to thank our negotiators here in the European Parliament since we have a really good result. A good result not only because 33.7 billion euros will be spent in Europe over the next few years from 2021 to 2027 to strengthen cross-border projects, but also because we still have a lot of work to…