Verhofstadt calls for fundamental change to EU aid for Egypt
18/06/2013
ALDE Leader, Guy Verhofstadt has called for a fundamental change in the way the EU's financial aid to Egypt is managed following a damning report by the Court of Auditors on the way the EEAS has managed the approximately 1...
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EU should show leadership in ensuring press freedom in the world
13/06/2013
Marietje Schaake, MEP (D66, Netherlands) has called for a strategy for press and media freedom to be implemented by the EU in her report on media freedom in the world which was adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg...
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Verhofstadt criticizes Europe on Turkey
12/06/2013
During an exchange of views with the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton today in Strasbourg, ALDE Leader, Guy Verhofstadt said he was disappointed that the Union has again chosen to be ambivalent in the face of a clear...
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Europe must not remain silent as Putin turns Russia's back on democracy
05/06/2013
Speaking at a seminar on Russian political prisoners organised by the ALDE Group in the European Parliament coinciding with the 50th birthday of former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ALDE spokesperson on Human Rights, Leonidas...
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Turks have a right to peaceful demonstration
04/06/2013
The escalation of anti-government protests and police crackdown in Turkey has highlighted the risks of majority governments becoming excessively authoritarian and ignoring the concerns and views of the rest of the population.
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Outrageous: NGO workers in Egypt jailed
04/06/2013
Today an Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 43 people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt. Twenty-seven defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received five-year jail...
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EU lifts arms embargo but highlights disunity
28/05/2013
Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE Leader has sharply criticised the failure of the EU foreign ministers to find a common EU position on the Syria arms embargo after high level discussions in Brussels last night but welcomed the fact that the...
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Guy Verhofstadt meets with leading anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny in Moscow
24/05/2013
Following the meeting with Alexey Navalny, Russian opposition leader, blogger and President of the Foundation for Fighting Corruption, ALDE Group President Guy Verhofstadt made the following statement:
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EU action plan urgently needed to ease catastrophic Syrian refugee crisis
23/05/2013
For the last two years, the international community has stood by as Syrians are increasingly being crushed between the brutal actions of the Assad regime and extremist groups. There are now seven million Syrians that rely on...
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ALDE continue to strongly support EU membership for Iceland
23/05/2013
Reacting to statements made by a spokesperson for the new coalition government in Iceland announcing that no further negotiation will be held with the European Union and Iceland on future EU membership without a prior referendum,...
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