Monthly Archives: May 2015

Silence on Hungary marks moral bankruptcy of Council

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament has this evening condemned the decision by the Latvian Presidency of the EU not to participate in a debate, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, on the situation in Hungary.

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The ALDE Group denounces Morsi death sentence

The ALDE Group denounces Morsi death sentence
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament calls on the Egypt’s Grand Mufti to reconsider the death sentence handed by an Egyptian Court to deposed president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 persons for their role in a mass jailbreak, during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

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ALDE4Equality campaign: make homophobia history

On the International day against homophobia (17 May), the ALDE group will renew its pledge to end homophobia and transphobia in the European Union and beyond. “The European Union is a community of values, and citizens’ rights are guarante…

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Migration: “Important step to tackle immediate crisis, but more needed to solve the root causes”

Migration: "Important step to tackle immediate crisis, but more needed to solve the root causes”
Commenting on today’s Commission migration proposals, Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE president commented:

“President Juncker has taken an important step. Europe cannot continue to look away from the tragedies that are happening in the Mediterranean.”

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Better regulation: “We should go further than the Commission proposal”

Pavel Telicka, Vice President of the ALDE Group and former member of the Stoiber High Level Group on administrative burden reduction, reacts to the leaked Commission proposal on better regulation:

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Nemtsov’s report proves Russians have been misled

Ilya Yashin, a close friend of ex-leader of the Russian opposition, Boris Nemtsov, and a high-ranking member of our sister-party RPR-Parnas, today published a report on Russian soldiers secretly fighting in Ukraine, entitled “Putin. War.”…

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Belarus: MEPs launch initiative to defend human rights

Belarus: MEPs launch initiative to defend human rights
ALDE Group Vice-President, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS (Liberal’s Movement of Lithuania) co-hosted, today, in the European Parliament, a meeting with the relatives of six Belarusian political prisoners who came to share their experiences and talk about the human rights situation under Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

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Migration – ALDE delegation meets key experts in the field of asylum and migration in Malta

An ALDE delegation is today travelling to Valleta, Malta, to meet with representatives from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), Malta’s Home Affairs Minister, as well as with agencies in charge of open and closed centres, police, a…

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“Lux leaks” investigation- ALDE urges special tax committee to speed up its work

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament deplores the difficulties its members are encountering on the special committee on tax rulings and Other Measures (TAXE committee).

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Political dialogue and respect for the rule of law are the only way to solve fYROM’s crisis

As the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia moves deeper into a political crisis, the ALDE Group in the European Parliament urges the two big political parties to start working on a solution to strengthen the nation’s institutions and th…

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