What Andrea spoke about.

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Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Libya we Europeans are paying for serious mistakes and our deep divisions. Others in the meantime have occupied an empty space: Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Gulf countries. The risk that we run as European institutions, Commission, Member States, Parliament, is our fundamental irrelevance. Recovering our role requires the credibility, unity and determination of …

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Oct

2022

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Political situation in Tunisia (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, just yesterday, Commissioner, a little girl arrived on the island of Lampedusa. She is only four years old, has no parents and is Tunisian. It is only the last episode that shows how great is the malaise that runs through Tunisian society and, even more, how great and open is the double challenge that is facing Tunisia at this moment in its hist…

19

Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate of ours is not a whim to fuel a foolish controversy in the European Parliament, here we are discussing, I believe, a crucial point that comes before everything else: the solidity of the political and democratic pact that has united us for over seventy years, the foundation of the construction of this common home, which is Europe and its various insti…

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Oct

2022

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The situation of human rights in Haiti in particular related to gang violence

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Haiti is in the grip of a spiral of violence that has continued to worsen since the assassination of President Moïse. Political instability and economic and social conditions, severely worsened by the pandemic and the violent earthquake of August 2021, make Haiti one of the most serious crisis scenarios for human and social rights in the world at this time. The …

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Nicaraguan Government has made a real quantum leap in the repression of domestic political dissent. Now all this is documented by the United Nations, by non-governmental organizations, by the EU itself. It all started in 2018 but in recent months it has experienced a real resurgence and the new target has become the Nicaraguan Catholic Church. Especially …

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Jul

2022

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The situation of indigenous and environmental defenders in Brazil, including the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us not waste this opportunity to have an election campaign debate, this is not the time for an election campaign. In Brazil, the situation of the indigenous population has dramatically worsened in recent years. We have seen serious violations of fundamental rights and all this in a climate of total impunity, indeed. We can clearly recognize, ready to make…

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Jun

2022

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Violations of media freedom and safety of journalists in Georgia

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, perhaps this was not the time to discuss and even have a resolution on Georgia in the current geopolitical context. However, we had confidence in the strength of the dialogue between us, focusing our attention on the violation of media freedoms and the safety of journalists and also identifying the responsibilities of the government authorities.…

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May

2022

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The case of Osman Kavala in Turkey

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is painful that Osman Kavala has been sentenced to life imprisonment for him and his family, for democracy in Turkey, for relations between Turkey and the European Union, because they are false accusations. The political interference of the government, public statements, promotions in the government of personalities involved in the case, the initiation of dis…

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May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we know that NSO is a private Israeli company and that it owns the most sophisticated surveillance technologies. This private company sells this technology to states thanks also to the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and it does so to democratic states, where it is possible to control the use of this technology, and it also does so to illiberal count…

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Mar

2022

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Myanmar, one year after the coup

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a year has passed since the coup d'état in Myanmar. Since then, the already precarious humanitarian conditions have worsened enormously: more than 1 500 citizens have been killed, more than 8 600 people are in prison, 80 are sentenced to death, more than 400 000 are newly displaced. All this since the military coup a year ago and after the disputed democratic…

19

Oct

2021

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Situation in Tunisia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are at a crucial juncture in Tunisia's democratic life. Faced with the health, social, economic and financial damage of the long pandemic, the risks of a halt to the democratic process have increased considerably. This is why it is not time to leave her alone and leave her young and fragile democratic institutions defenseless, it is time to act politically…

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Oct

2021

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The case of Paul Rusesabagina in Rwanda

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, who would call a man who saved some 1 200 people during a genocide a terrorist? Yet it is so, it is what the Court and the Government of Rwanda have done, where democracy has been gagged for years and critical voices are turned into cries of torture inside prisons. We are facing a political prisoner, a death sentence for a 67-year-old cancer survivor. That is wh…

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Sep

2021

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The case of human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor in UAE

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 'not all that glitters is gold'. This is the phrase that best describes the United Arab Emirates. In fact, behind the image of an enlightened, progressive, tolerant and rights-respecting ruling class lies an illiberal regime. Ahmed Mansoor, engineer, poet, father of four, is only the most prominent victim of the Emirati repressive regime, which sees so many o…