EU-Russia: one day we will rebuild this continent together
Mr President, dear colleagues, why are we so proud of this report? Why do we owe Andrius Kubilius our thanks? For two reasons – and a third.
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Category: VERBATIM
European solidarity 41 years after the strike of the shipyard
On 31 August, MEP Bernard Guetta received an award for his journalistic work during the Gdansk...
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Ethiopia, an emergency for Africa, an emergency for the Union
Speech in the plenary session as part of the debate on the situation in Ethiopia
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one only has to open an atlas, to look at a map of Africa, to understand the extent of this drama on the borders of Sudan – the torn Sudan, the bloodied Sudan, the crucified Sudan. The conflict in which Eritrea, Ethiopia and Tigray are now embroiled is an absolutely dramatic extension of the conflicts in the Sahel to the Indian Ocean.
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That day will come
Intervention at the plenary session in the debate on Russia’s classification of German NGOs as “undesirable organisations” and the detention of Andrei Pivovarov
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Four lessons for peace
Intervention at the plenary session on the EU strategy on the situation between Israel and Palestine
The end of the Arab-Israeli conflict would necessarily mean the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was the prevailing idea, but the Palestinians have not disappeared from Israel and the Occupied Territories and the first lesson to be learned from this war is that there will never be a lasting peace without the creation of a Palestine alongside Israel.
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