EU should develop a strategy for Turkmenistan that will promote freedom and human rights
21/02/2013
Norica Nicolai (PNL, Romania) the European Parliament's rapporteur on Turkmenistan, welcomed the recent release from prison of Sapardurdy Khajiev and Annakurban Amanklychev, unjustly jailed in 2006 for assisting a French film...
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Verhofstadt: EU foreign ministers must take bolder action to prevent more Syrians suffering
18/02/2013
On the day that EU Foreign Ministers meet to discuss the situation in Syria, Guy Verhofstadt is calling for more proactive and, if necessary, unorthodox support for aid delivery directly to the Syrian refugees, echoing the call...
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Changes to Khodorkovsky's jail sentence must not deflect EU from asking tough questions of Russia at today's summit
21/12/2012
ALDE spokeswoman on Russia Kristiina Ojuland MEP today expressed satisfaction at news of the two-year reduction in the prison sentence of businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky but warned EU leaders at today's EU-Russia summit not to...
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