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.
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.
Plenary speech UNGA 75th and 76th.
It is critical that the United States and the European Union work together to promote 5G technologies that embrace democratic values and keep authoritarian influence at bay.
11 June 2021 – Together with colleagues in the European Parliament Miriam Lexamnn continue to call on additional targeted sanctions against Lukashenka and all those responsible for the continued repressions, but also for the European Union to impose sectoral economic sanctions, lifting of which must be made conditional on the release of all political prisoners and end to all repression in Belarus.
8 June 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP spoke today at the EP Plenary in Strasbourg during a debate on the Parliament’s recommendations to the 75th and 76th UN General Assembly.
8 June 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP spoke today at the EP Plenary debate in Strasbourg on the situation in Belarus. It is time for us to face the reality – targeted sanctions are not sufficient to stop Lukashenka. It is time for sectoral economic sanctions,conditional on the release of all political prisoners, and the end to all repression, said Lexmann.
1 June 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP has denounced the sentencing of Pavel Sevyarynets, co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democrats, and 6 other political prisoners by the Lukashenka regime in Belarus. She calls for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Belarus.
31 May 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP co-signed a joint letter by a cross-party group of MEPs to EU Foreign Ministers and HRVP Josep Borrell regarding the importance of attending and witnessing the trials of civil activists and political prisoners in Belarus by the EU Delegation and the Member States with Embassies or representations on the ground.
28 May 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP joined a cross-party statement of MEPs urging the European Union to adopt a firm policy on Iran, to give priority to human rights and to hold to account those responsible for human rights violations and terrorism.
26 May 2021 – Miriam Lexmann MEP co-signed a joint letter from a cross-party group of MEPs, calling on SIEMENS to suspend equipment deliveries to Belarus as part of the project to build backup and peaking power plants in Belarus and to terminate further cooperation with the authoritarian regime, endangering lives and safety of European citizens.
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