9
Jul
2025
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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)
Madam President, Mr President of the European Council, Commissioner, for a while now this part is more the task to be done than what is reflected in the Council conclusions. In defence and foreign policy: Trump's follow-through must be reversed, which means drawing conclusions from Netanyahu's genocide and suspending the Association Agreement with Israel, in addition to betting on integrating military capabilities instead of, uncritically, increasing the percentage of the defense budget. On migration and asylum: We must bet on fair compliance with the Pact, and the constant references to instrumentalization by Putin and Lukashenka cannot make us lose sight of the fact that the deadliest and most affluent route of illicit trafficking is through the Atlantic to the Canary Islands. And in the area of freedom, security and justice and the rule of law: we must finally unblock in the Council the proposal for a directive on equal treatment as proposed by the Danish Presidency, in addition to the proposal for a directive on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material, and finally fulfil the mandate of the Treaty on European Union for the European Union to accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.