European sanctions should also focus on corruption. This follows a request from 204 Members of the European Parliament and national parliaments to EU High Representative Josep Borrell and the EU-27 Foreign Minister.
A group of senior politicians representing the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China have issued a statement calling on their governments to lead investigations into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity taking place in the Xinjiang region.
MEPs are concerned about the growing Chinese influence in Serbia and the impending environmental damage thereof.
Plenary speech to resolution about Hong Kong.
Plenary speech to The EU Magnitsky Act and acts of corruption
I am abhorred by the sentencing of my good friend and co-chairman of the Belarus Christian Democrats, Pavel Sevyarynets, together with the European Belarus activists Maksim Vinyarski, Andrey Voynich, Paval Yukhnevich and Yauhen Afnahel, as well as Telegram channel administrator Iryna Schasnaya and blogger Dzmitry Kazlou.
21 July 2021 – In today’s united geopolitical world, we cannot afford to remain silent even here in Slovakia, because everything that happens far away from us concerns us precisely because we are so interconnected. This was stated by Miriam Lexmann during a Bratislava event commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the persecution of the Falun Gong movement in China.
09 July 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP, during European Parliament plenary debate on the EU Magnitsky Act, urged the Member States to include acts of corruption within the instrument so that it can be used to target economic and financial enablers of human rights abuses.
08 July 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP led, on behalf of the EPP Group, negotiations on the European Parliament’s urgency resolution on Hong Kong. During the plenary debate, she praised the determination of the people of Hong Kong in light of increasing repressions from the Chinese Communist Party.
06 July 2021 – During the Europarlament plenary session in Strasbourg Miriam Lexmann called on the EU Member States to urgently expand the scope of the EU #MagnitskyAct, by drawing on the US Global #MagnitskyAct, and include acts of corruption within the instrument.
05 July 2021 – The dignity of the lives of our parents and grandparents is also our mirror. This was stated by Miriam Lexmann in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a speech on the challenges of the EU’s aging policy.
30 June 2021 – On the occasion of a 1-year anniversary since the imposition of the so-called national security law for #HongKong, co-chairs of the cross-party EP, including Miriam Lexmann, informal Hong Kong Watch Group wrote a joint letter to EU leaders to #StandWithHongKong.
29 June 2021 – The European Parliament’s strongest faction, the EPP, has adopted a resolution with concrete steps calling for EU assistance to the people of Belarus in their struggle for freedom. The resolution was initiated by the Slovak KDH also through Miriam Lexmann and the Czech KDU-ČSL.
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