Hilde Vautmans
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🇪🇺MEP: Foreign affairs coordinator @RenewEurope I Human rights | Women’s rights | Children's rights | Agriculture. 🇧🇪 1e schepen van Sint-Truiden @openvld .
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Another blow to the pro-democratic forces in
#Hongkong
. With the national security law, Beijing has killed many freedoms, now also press freedom. The EU must be firm and act.
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Never forget
#Tiananmen
1989, how peaceful student protests were brutally crushed by the Chinese state, killing hundreds of people. Yet, we must also not look away from Beijing’s biggest crackdown and stifling of dissent ever since. Let’s therefore today
#StandWithHongKong
too!
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Next week the
@Europarl_EN
will adopt a very strong resolution on the proposed security law for
#HongKong
. Time for the international community to act united against the crackdown on democracy and human rights in
#HongKong
.
👉
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I want
#Europe
🇪🇺 to engage with
#China
. But we have to do this by defending our values and our interests. That is why I plead to China again: Withdraw the security law
and give the people in
#HongKong
🇭🇰 the autonomy that has been agreed upon!
@RenewEurope
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China is using forced Uighur labour to produce face masks and continues its crackdown on
#HongKong
. We urgently need an EU Magnitsky Act to sanction the leaders of these human rights violations. Read our letter to
@JosepBorrellF
@RenewEurope
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🇪🇺 Democracy can never be taken for granted. It takes years, sometimes decades to achieve it, but it takes seconds to lose it. Europe must cherish its democratic institutions and always take the lead in promoting & protecting democracy around the world.
#DemocracyDay
#HongKong
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China’s 🇨🇳 crackdown on human rights in
#HongKong
🇭🇰 needs to be high on the agenda. We defend human rights and the rule of law. Let’s start to confront China with this!
#reneweurope
@AngelaMerkeICDU
@EU2020DE
#EPlenary
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🇪🇺🇨🇳Closing deals with
#China
when the crackdown in
#HongKong
and the suppression of
#Uyghurs
continue, is no responsible leadership nor strategic autonomy.
This house will scrutinize the
#CAI
and the human rights situation in China before approving this deal!
@RenewEurope
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De EU 🇪🇺 mag nooit toegeven aan Chinese 🇨🇳 druk.
@JosepBorrellF
moet dringend werk maken van:
👉 Onafhankelijk onderzoek naar oorsprong
#COVID19
👉 Duidelijkheid over situatie
#klokkenluiders
👉 Veroordeling van geweld in
#HongKong
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🕔 Zo dadelijk
@RenewEurope
group meeting met
@JosepBorrellF
.
En de timing kon niet beter. Als Unie 🇪🇺 mogen we de zgn. Chinese ‘veiligheidswet’ nooit aanvaarden. De autonomie van
#Hongkong
🇭🇰 moet gerespecteerd blijven. Tijd om gepast te reageren!
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In the news!!
@RenewEurope
EU must sanction Chinese leaders involved in Uighur oppression, say legislators – POLITICO
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Europa🇪🇺 moet
#openheid
& respect voor
#mensenrechten
van China🇨🇳 eisen. Dringend antwoord nodig over:
1) Toestand
#klokkenluiders
2) Werkelijke omvang
#COVID19
-uitbraak
3) Context arrestaties in
#HongKong
Lees mijn brief aan
@JosepBorrellF
👇
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Yet another blow to human rights activists across
#China
🇨🇳. We will never accept the imprisonment of citizens because they stand up for their freedoms.
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I urged
@JosepBorrellF
to take a strong stance towards
#China
🇨🇳 . We want transparency about the origin of the virus and the arrests of the
#CoronaWhistleblowers
. And we should never let China censor our reports! Europeans 🇪🇺 demand the truth. Watch my intervention here. 👇
🇨🇳
@hildevautmans
: "China should be more open and transparent regarding the origin of the virus and it should stop spreading disinformation and pressuring Europe. What happened to the whistleblowers? Where are they?
@JosepBorrellF
, we need the truth and we need it now".
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The EU 🇪🇺 must indeed use its economic leverage to challenge China's crackdown on human rights by economic means.
#HongKong
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Support for China 🇨🇳 has decreased in the world. I hope it makes its leadership realise it must improve its human rights record.
#StandingRapporteur
#China
#reneweurope
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🔊 Zie je
@AngelaMerkeICDU
lachen achter haar mondmasker? 😉 Bekijk mijn tussenkomst van zonet.👇
#bondskanselier
#DuitsVoorzitterschap
#speech
#politicianwithballs
@RenewEurope
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Vandaag zeggen we duidelijk aan
#HongKong
🇭🇰 dat het op de steun van het
@Europarl_NL
kan rekenen.
#China
🇨🇳 moet haar omstreden veiligheidswet intrekken, de vrijheden van Hongkongers waarborgen en de principes van de rechtsstaat respecteren. Lees meer👇
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Today missing for over 3 years. Human rights defender
#GaoZhisheng
was
#forciblydisappeared
4 times within 10 years.
#China
🇨🇳 needs to ratify the Intl Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
#FreeGaoZhisheng
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Hebben Europese diplomaten onder druk van
#Peking
een cruciaal rapport verbloemd? Hoog tijd voor duidelijkheid. Tijdens buitengewone
@EP_ForeignAff
-sessie zal ik
@JosepBorrellF
hierover stevig aan de tand voelen.
Volg mijn
#tussenkomst
live vanaf 16u👇
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Uitleg
@JosepBorrell
over mogelijke Chinese 🇨🇳 inmenging is veel te mager. Situaties als deze ondermijnen geloofwaardigheid van
#EU
🇪🇺. Tijd voor een nieuwe
#Chinastrategie
, gebaseerd op samenwerking maar mét voldoende ruimte voor kritiek.
#reneweurope
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Finally, the
#EU
acts against
#China
's human rights abuses against the
#Uighurs
in
#Xinjiang
. Now decisive action is needed to show that the EU
#StandWithHongKong
too!
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Chinese claims that it respects a world of freedoms and the rule of law sound empty when you see what is going on in
#HongKong
. The repression intensifies every day.
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Beijing adopted a resolution giving the HKSAR government the power to unseat "unpatriotic" LegCo members. Yet another direct attack to the autonomy of
#HongKong
and the pro-democracy opposition. We must not turn a blind eye but
#StandWithHongKong
!
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🇪🇺🇨🇳 We want to remain engaged with
#China
. But on human rights, we will not paper over our difference. Well said
@CharlesMichel
.
#EPlenary
#Uyghurs
#HongKong
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The European Parliament wants action and calls on the Council to impose sanctions against the Chinese officials who responsible for the suppression of the
#Uyghurs
.
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The EU's response to the
#NationalSecurityLaw
has been insufficient. Last week, the
@Europarl_EN
urged the
@EUCouncil
to intensify discussions on the measures on
#HongKong
endorsed in July. To save Hong Kong's autonomy and democracy, firmer action is needed!
#FAC
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Tomorrow
@JosepBorrellF
will clarify in
@EP_ForeignAff
whether latest EEAS report on
#disinformation
around
#COVID19
was watered down due to Chinese🇨🇳 pressure. We need an urgent explanation. Our institutions should be independent and cannot bow to foreign pressure.
@RenewEurope
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European Prime Ministers have clearly communicated that their countries do not accept
#China
’s sanctions against their MPs and institutions. High time for the European leadership to do the same!
@eucopresident
@vonderleyen
@JosepBorrellF
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Interesting read. The West should indeed guard itself against Xi Jinping’s contempt for democracy.
#China
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Finally. A united message against Chinese attempts to silence us. In this deteriorating political climate, we cannot get the deal done
#CAI
.
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🇪🇺🇨🇳The
@Europarl_EN
stands firm in its decision to freeze
#CAI
and will not give in to Chinese divide and rule tactics. Sanctions must be lifted before we proceed with discussions on
#CAI
.
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Horrible account of how the
#Uighurs
are brainwashed and tortured into submission. This crime against humanity must stop. When will Europe act? We finally have an EU Magnitsky Act, let's use it!
@JosepBorrellF
@vonderleyen
@EUCouncil
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Nothing new, but this shows once again that Carrie Lam is a puppet of Beijing. How can you deny that this is an attack on press freedom in
#HongKong
?
What will the
#EU
do to condemn this? Read my questions to HR/VP
@JosepBorrellF
below 👇
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BOODSCHAP VAN ALGEMEEN NUT
Schapen zitten in ver stadium vn dracht & geraken dr ht gewicht vd lammetjes in hun buik niet recht. Als een schaap te lang zo blijft liggen gaat ze dood. Help ze trg rechtop! Hoe? het schaap over de kont op zijn poten zetten. Sharing is caring! ❤️🐑
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#China
will finally be sanctioned over its repression of
#Uighurs
in
#Xinjiang
. My full support for this batch of targeted sanctions.
@EUCouncilPress
Yet, the hard reality is that our toolbox for an increasingly assertive 🇨🇳 will have to include much more than sanctions alone.
EU 🇪🇺 sanctions 11 people over the military coup and ensuing repression in 🇲🇲 Myanmar/Burma
👉
AND 11 people & 4 entities responsible for serious
#humanrights
violations in China, DPRK, Libya, Russia, South Sudan and Eritrea
👉
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🇪🇺🇨🇳 Votes just out: massive support to freeze the EU-China
#CAI
, until the sanctions imposed by
#China
on European politicians & institutions are lifted. Happy that
@reneweurope
took the lead in this. We will not tolerate this attack on European democracy!
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🇪🇺🇺🇸 Joint statement just out! Full support that the
#EU
and
#US
are united in their rejection of authoritarianism & protection of democracy across the globe, notably in
#Belarus
,
#Myanmar
and
#Hongkong
! Engagement to partner in the global Summit for Democracy.
Read more👇
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🇭🇰 Let us
#StandWithHongKong
.
Let us stand up for human rights.
And let us stand up for freedom!
My intervention in
#EPlenary
today 👇
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China seems to prefer a Darwinian system in which the most powerful rule over the smaller countries. This is not the rules-based order the EU stands for and makes closer EU-China cooperation problematic.
Chinese state media: Lithuania “has a radical hostile stance toward Russia that’s out of proportion to its national power...When such a small country is aggressive, proactively placing itself (as) a tool of great power competition, it will invite trouble”
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“We hebben een nieuwe China-strategie nodig. Betere handelsrelaties en waken over mensenrechten inzake de Oeigoeren en Hong Kong. Dat kan met een sterke partner zoals de VS naast ons.”
@vrtnws
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This is why we need targeted sanctions, more binding commitments on forced labour in
#CAI
& continue to push for an international investigation. These
#HumanRights
violations in
#China
must stop.
📢NEW AMNESTY RESEARCH📢
#China
: Parents of missing
#Uyghur
children describe horror of family separation
#UyghurFamilies
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#China
should understand that it is not only Germany that decides about the Investment Agreement
#CAI
. It is now in the hands of the European Parliament, which has a track record of not closing its eyes to the violation of
#HumanRights
.
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🇪🇺🇨🇳The European Parliament is not intimidated by Chinese sanctions and will freeze the EU-China Investment Agreement
#CAI
today.
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Persecution of journalists in
#China
may have contributed to the global
#COVID19
outbreak & thus also affects citizens in western democracies,
@RSF_inter
warns. This is exactly why 🇨🇳 is a challenge to the liberal world order & why we need to defend it!
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Let it be very clear that the
#EU
does not tolerate the
#HumanRights
abuses committed against the
#Uighurs
.
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High time to renew our ties with the US for a joint strategy to deal with Russia, Turkey and China. Let’s ensure Europe is ready to play its part. A geopolitical Europe needs a Defence Union as the European pillar of NATO and an end of the unanimity rule.
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🇪🇺🇨🇳Verontrustend, maar zeker niet onwaarschijnlijk. Waarom blijven Europese sancties voor de Chinese repressie in
#Hongkong
uit? En hoe zal de
#EU
de democratie in
#Taiwan
blijven ondersteunen? Tijd voor actie!
#NationalSecurityLaw
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Too many human rights violations are taking place in the world. Europe cannot turn a blind eye to them. We need to adopt a
#EuropeanMagnitskyAct
!
Follow our webinar here 👉
#reneweurope
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Een staaltje Chinese verdeel- en heerspolitiek in de
#EU
. Ik mag hopen dat niet enkel handel dit gesprek domineerde, maar bondskanselier Merkel ook mensenrechten & de Chinese tegensancties op Europese politici & instellingen heeft aangekaart.
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“Today, we demand justice for Mr
#Rusesabagina
. Not because he is the most famous Rwandan. Not because he has won several peace prizes. But, because he simply has the right to a fair trial.” in
#EPlenary
@reneweurope
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This is why the
#CoFoE
is so badly needed! How much longer will we accept one member state threatening to block
#HumanRights
sanctions because of their own illiberal interests? Foreign ministers must adopt sanctions on those involved in
#Uyghur
repression.
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Thank you Angelina Jolie for your message at
#AfghanWomenDays
@Europarl_BE
today.
🗣To all these brave, freethinking Afghan women: what you have achieved over centuries may be suppressed but not erased.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
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Volledig akkoord
@MarianeVerhaert
! Nooit zal men er in slagen ons monddood te maken als het gaat over de verdediging van mensenrechten en fundamentele vrijheden. Blij dat ook
@DeKamerBE
op initiatief van
@MarianeVerhaert
@goedeleliekens
een signaal zendt naar
#China
hieromtrent.
Als parlement moeten we fundamentele vrijheden en mensenrechten beschermen. Blij dat mijn resolutie bijna unaniem gesteund werd. Stoere praat van een totalitair regime zal die parlementaire vrijheid niet beknotten.
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Appalled by the decision of
#China
to sanction my dear colleagues
@bueti
,
@gahler_michael
,
@rglucks1
,
@ilhankyuchyuk
and
@MiriamMLex
, who I fully support. No action will intimidate us or impact our resolve to stand up for
#HumanRights
and fundamental values.
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Adopted ✅! After months of hard work, great to see such broad support for my report on a new EU-China strategy🇪🇺🇨🇳! This shows how united we as
@Europarl_EN
are in our belief that we must put our naivety away when dealing with
#China
.
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Orban should look in the mirror when he calls EU foreign policy a "laughing stock". Because his own illiberal government prefers cosying up with authoritarian regimes like China and Russia rather than defending the EU interest, Europe is incapable to act.
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Next week the
@Europarl_EN
will adopt a strong report to support
#Taiwan
against ever increasing Chinese pressure. We must ensure Taiwan will never have to endure the same suppression as
#HongKong
is subject to.
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Het
@Europarl_EN
buigt niet voor Chinese intimidatie en pogingen om mensenrechten internationaal te verzwakken. Totdat Chinese vergeldingssancties zijn opgeheven, gaat
#CAI
de diepvries in. 🇪🇺🇨🇳
Lees meer👇
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This is a sad moment in history. War in Europe has proven to be not unthinkable.
Ukraine must receive our full support after Russia's attack on the country, which is to be fully condemned. Our thoughts are with Ukraine & its people suffering from the Russian aggression!🇺🇦
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The problem is that
#China
still does not understand that being a leader in a rules-based world order also means that you defend human dignity and the rule of law. Political prisoners, slave labour and cultural genocide will never be tolerated.
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Tomorrow marks 1 year since China imposed its draconian
#NationalSecurityLaw
for
#HongKong
. Ever since, defending democracy, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law have become a crime in the city. Let's all denounce the
#NSL
tomorrow and
#StandWithHongKong
!
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This lack of official reactions from the
#EU
institutions is a real shame and a slap in the face of all those targeted.
I urge
#EUCO
leaders to stand with the
@Europarl_EN
and condemn
#China
's decision to impose sanctions on EU entities & individuals in their EUCO conclusions.
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Ontzet door de beslissing van
#China
om tegensancties te treffen op o.a. de
@EP_HumanRights
& MEPs. China's reactie dwingt EU-leiders om de Europese naïviteit t.a.v. Beijing te laten varen & werk te maken van een nieuwe, meer assertieve China-strategie 🇪🇺🇨🇳
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Vandaag in
@HLN
, een dubbelinterview samen met Sam. Over het leven, en onze kids.
#liefde
#kleurisnietbelangrijk
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🇪🇺🇨🇳Tune in at 17:45 today! I will be presenting my draft report on a new EU-China strategy in
@EP_ForeignAff
. We need a strategy that unites all Member States and shapes relations with
#China
in the interest of the
#EU
as a whole, while defending our values.
🆕 Today in
@EP_ForeignAff
;
📌 Public hearing on the EU's 🇪🇺 long-term strategy towards Russia 🇷🇺;
📌 Debates on the recent EU-India 🇮🇳 Leaders' virtual meeting, a new EU-China 🇨🇳 strategy & the future of EU-US 🇺🇸 relations.
Full agenda (when & where) ➡️
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"This is a war against the values, against principles, against the foundations of the world order and therefore we are standing as one for 105 days defending both Ukraine and the entire civilized world" says a brave
@r_stefanchuk
, speaker of the 🇺🇦
@ua_parliament
in
#EPlenary
.
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🇪🇺🇮🇷 A crystal clear message👇
614 MEPs support the call for targeted sanctions if
#AhmadrezaDjalali
is not freed!
Our increased engagement with
#Iran
means we will raise human rights and will not tolerate impunity for human rights violations!
#SaveAhmadreza
#EPlenary
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🗳️🇷🇼 Massive support! Clear and united message from
@europarl_EN
to Rwanda: Release Paul Rusesabagina on humanitarian grounds and let him be repatriated!⤵️
#EPlenary
#HumanRights
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Nagels met koppen
@egbertlachaert
De formatie was aartsmoeilijk, maar 7 partijen vonden elkaar in een sfeer van vertrouwen en wederzijds respect.
Oppositie moet gevoerd worden, dat mag zelfs hard. Maar laat ons de waarheid niet verdraaien.
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🌈 On this
#ComingOutDay
, we repeat that every person is free to be who they want to be and to love who they want to love. Being open about your sexual orientation is more than OK. ❤️ is 🧡💛💚💙💜
#EU
#LGBTIFreedomZone
@LGBTIintergroup
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"Europa moet een grotere rol spelen bij de evacuatievluchten uit
#Afghanistan
, maar we hebben niet de bevoegdheid en capaciteit. We hebben geen Europees leger en geen Europese repatriëringseenheid. Dit is een wake-up call, Europa moet dit in handen nemen."
#deochtend
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Very honoured to receive the award for best Member of the European Parliament in the category economy. A true recognition for my work as China rapporteur in the European Parliament 🇪🇺🇨🇳
#MEPAwards2022
@Parlimag
@RenewEurope
@OpenVld
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Our
@Europarl_EN
resolution sends a clear message to the Rwandan authorities:
Release Paul Rusesabagina on humanitarian grounds and let him be repatriated, without prejudice to his guilt or innocence.
My speech today in
#EPlenary
👇
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Big thanks to
@TheresaAFallon
@FGodement
@JonathanHolslag
@nathanlawkc
for their valuable contributions during today's
@RenewEurope
webinar on a new EU-China Strategy! 🇪🇺🇨🇳
Watch it again 👉
Some of the conclusions of today's webinar⤵️
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🇪🇺🇹🇼 The
@Europarl_EN
just adopted its first report on EU-Taiwan relations ✅! We express our support for a key democratic partner and intensified cooperation and show our firm rejection to unilateral actions jeopardizing the stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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Strong
@guyverhofstadt
in
#EPlenary
: Never can citizens be the victim of the choice for Brexit. I want to appeal to
@BorisJohnson
: be generous in your victory! Grant the same status to all Europeans in the UK. "No ifs, no buts".
#reneweurope
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The
@Europarl_EN
should urgently discuss the deeply worrying situation in
#Tigray
. The humanitarian situation is disastrous, with thousands of civilian deaths, countless people starving to death & internally displaced people. We must step up our engagement.
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Thank you HRH Sophie the Countess of Wessex, excellencies and all these European organizations to join forces to step up the fight against child sexual abuse
#CSA
in Europe! 💪
@Childmanifesto
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Notre groupe
@RenewEurope
vient d'élire un nouveau président! Félicitations à
@steph_sejourne
! Nous avons toute confiance en vos capacités et votre énergie pour diriger notre groupe vers 2024! 👏
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