MEPs will be presented with the nominees for this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in a joint committee meeting on Monday afternoon. MEPs from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Development Committee and Subcommittee on Human Rights will meet to assess the nominees put forward for this year’s Sakharov Prize. Nominations
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15 September 2021 I strongly condemn the human rights violations and brutality of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. I express my condolences to all those who have lost family members or friends due to the repressions. Lukashenko and his henchmen must be brought to international justice. I demand
8 September 2021 The UK has presented a ministerial statement regarding the operation of the Protocol on the current basis. This includes the continuation of existing grace periods. The Withdrawal Agreement is an international agreement. The Protocol is an integral part of it and the agreed solution
7 September 2021David McAllister MEP, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament I. Following the 9/11 attacks in New York, US troops and their NATO allies ousted the Taliban from power in November 2001. The Taliban group had been harbouring Osama Bin Laden
7 September 2021 The European People’s Party (EPP) Political Assembly (PA) met in a hybrid format in Brussels on 6 and 7 September to update on political developments across member states, adopt a position paper on Afghanistan with a focus on Afghan women and discuss