What Lars Patrick spoke about.

27 Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

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Mr President! Was gas supplies from Azerbaijan more important to the European Commission than the lives of innocent people in Nagorno-Karabakh? There is no doubt that the international community, especially Russia, has abandoned Armenia because the Kremlin considered economic ties with Azerbaijan more important than the brutal expulsion of over one hundred thousand ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Ka…

9 May

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz (debate)

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Events, the pandemic, economic uncertainty, the rising cost of living, unregulated migration, the war in Ukraine have led us to reconsider the role of the European Union and the role of Germany in this Union. It has become clear that European citizens often turn to their national governments in times of crisis. I would therefore like to stress that we must weigh very carefully a further transfer o…

17 Jan

2023

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! In principle, I would also like to thank the colleague for the work, but the annual report is unfortunately incomplete – a long list of alleged achievements and an even longer list of aspirations, neatly divided to demonstrate our humanitarian credibility. We even have annexes listing the individual cases we have examined and a list of the countries we have condemned…

5 Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Kosovo (debate)

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Madam President, I welcome this report, which I believe is both balanced and fair. My concern is that, as in the case of Georgia, we are failing to support our friends in a great period of instability. It is unforgivable that Kosovo is still not recognised by some Member States for reasons that have more to do with domestic policy considerations than with issues of Kosovo's sovereignty. We must so…

10 Mar

2022

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Destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Madam President, Commissioner! I fully support an independent Commission of Inquiry led by UNESCO to investigate and determine the full extent of cultural vandalism in Arzach. I am also sure that this mission will reveal the wanton destruction of Armenian churches, monuments, artifacts and memorial stones, the so-called Khachkars. What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of Armenian cu…

15 Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Current tensions have brought European security and defence policy into focus. I have long been skeptical about the effectiveness of the CSDP. For me, NATO is the guarantor of peace, and I am not sure if focusing on CSDP would weaken NATO. In any case, the current crisis has shown that Washington's view is not necessarily shared in all European capitals and that we need a more ind…