New independent Electoral Court indispensable to guarantee transparent electionsMilitary must withdraw from protest areasArmed forces and the police should refrain from influencing political processes To return to stability, Bolivia needs to hold new “free, inclusive and transparent” elections as soon as possible, MEPs said on Thursday. With
Haiti must stop violently repressing protestersAlgeria must end harassment and intimidation of religious minorities and civil societyCuba must release José Daniel Ferrer immediately On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions taking stock of the human rights situation in Haiti, Algeria and Cuba. Haiti The European Parliament strongly
MEPs will hold a debate with last year’s Sakharov Prize laureate, Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, in Strasbourg on Monday 25 November at 19.00. Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov was last year’s Sakharov Prize laureate. Until recently, he was serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia for
Today marked Day-1 of the XXVI Congress of the European People’s Party in Zagreb, co-hosted by Prime Minister of Croatia and Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ) leader, Andrej Plenković, and EPP President Joseph Daul and EPP Secretary General Antonio López-Istúriz. The first plenary session featured addresses by EPP’s non-EU and EU heads of
Na kongresu Europske pučke stranke u Zagrebu će jedna od tema biti i pitanje europske perspektive za zemlje Zapadnog Balkana. Europski pučani očekuju da će Hrvatska tu imatu važnu ulogu. Kongres Europske pučke stranke (EPP) koji se 20. i 21. studenog održava u Zagrebu biti će
The parliamentary elections in Belarus will take place on Sunday 17 November. The European Parliament does not observe this electoral process. As a matter of consequence, none of its members or bodies have been mandated to observe or comment on this electoral process on behalf of