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“Schengen finished without European Border and Coast Guard”, Guy Verhofstadt
– Ping pong game, shuffling refugees between countries must stop, says Group Leader of the European Liberals and Democrats –
During today’s debate in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has warned Europe’s leaders that Schengen is fi…
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EU to remain frontrunner on privacy protection – ALDE welcomes agreement on the data protection package
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament strongly welcomes the agreement reached today by the European Parliament, Member States and the European Commission on the reform of the data protection package (Regulation and Directive). For th…
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MEPs warn EU leaders must do more to deliver equality for disabled people
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Liberal and Democrat MEPs have today called on the EU Commission and EU Governments to do more to ‘keep the promise’ to disabled people and end discrimination against them once and fo…
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Verhofstadt: “We have to cooperate with and invest in Africa, but not outsource our problems to Africa”
ALDE group leader Verhofstadt and ALDE migration spokesperson Wikström have today addressed the European Commission and the Member States to deplore the pitiful outcome of the Valleta summit which took place on the 11 and 12 November 2015. Agreeing on a European Border and Coast Guard and a European asylum-and migration system including a European Blue Card for skilled and non-skilled workers should have been the outcome of the meeting. European solutions for European problems are urgently needed.
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Verhofstadt welcomes Avramopoulos call for a European Intelligence Agency
Guy Vehofstadt, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament, welcomes the call of the Commissioner for migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, for the creation of a European Intelligence Agency. It should not be an idea to be implemented in the long term but as soon as possible. ALDE urges the Home Affairs and Interior ministers, meeting today in Brussels, to take immediate measures to strengthen Europe´s anti-terrorism capacity and to support the setting up of a fully fledged European intelligence agency to fight against borderless terrorism. This European agency should be subject to a democratic oversight. Mandatory Exchange of information between Member States and their national state security agencies is a key priority.
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Refugee crisis: ALDE delegation meets key actors in the field of asylum and migration in Hungary
Tomorrow, a delegation from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament led by its first vice-president Sophie In’t Veld is travelling to Hungary on a field mission to monitor the human rights situation of the refugees and migrants who have entered Hungary during the last months. ALDE members will visit the Martonvásár detention centre, where they will meet refugees who have been detained after entering Hungary crossing the newly-built border fence.
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Verhofstadt: “Europe has to show full solidarity in the merciless fight against terrorism that President Hollande has announced”
What we witnessed in Paris last night was a barbaric attack on humanity itself and the universal values of liberty and fraternity France stands for. My thoughts in this terrible moment go out to the victims and their families.
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National governments fail to protect citizens against mass surveillance
Two and a half years after the NSA scandal, the ALDE group urges Member States to end the unlimited and unwarranted surveillance EU citizens are being exposed to. The lack of response from Member States and the European Commission to the …
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Boris Nemtsov receives Jean Rey International Prize
The former co-leader of our liberal sister-party, RPR-PARNAS, Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in February 2015 on a bridge near the Kremlin walls, is to posthumously receive the Jean Rey International Prize 2016, following a decision taken by the selection committee of Jean Rey Foundation. Nemtsov’s assassination happened a few weeks after he started to work on a dossier proving the involvement of Russian military forces in the war in Eastern Ukraine.
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Is Haider back?
Commenting on the news that Austria will build a fence on its border with Slovenia, the first wall to be built within the Schengen area ALDE Group leader Guy Verhofstadt said:
“Austria is destroying the Schengen area from within. Instead…
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