Written question to the European Commission After more than 100 Polish municipalities declared themselves ‘LGBTI-free zones’, after an outrageous homophobic presidential campaign by President Duda, after the Polish Minister Janusz Kowalski said the whole of Poland should be an ’LGBT-free zone’, the authorities carried out a mass arrest of 48 LGBTI activists on 8 August […]
Written question to the European Commission In July 2020, the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina decided that the country would not take part in the 2021 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing round. In 2018, Bosnia and Herzegovina took part in the PISA study for the first time, mostly thanks to the active engagement […]
Written question to the European Commission The lack of data on the creative and cultural sectors (CCS) has been highlighted by representatives of international organisations, Member States and civil society organisations as one of the main obstacles to immediately supporting the CCS, which have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This lack of data […]
Written question to the European Commission Numerous reports have emerged of human rights violations and atrocities allegedly committed by the Croatian police against migrants on the EU border, as well as various disturbing reports from NGOs and in the media that the Commission has yet to make progress with the announced monitoring mechanism intended to […]
Written question to the European Commission There are currently 12 Bahraini citizens on death row who have exhausted all legal remedies and are now awaiting only the King’s ratification of their execution. The trials of these individuals did not guarantee their right to due process and clear evidence of coerced confessions and torture were ignored. […]
Written question to the European Commission Following the 30 August 2020 parliamentary elections in Montenegro, there was civil unrest and a worrying set of events where people – primarily from the Muslim community – were attacked verbally and physically, hate graffiti appeared and mosques were attacked. The situation was especially worrying in the town of […]
Written question to the European Commission and the Council In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the Presidents of the European Council and the Commission issued a communication on 15 April emphasising the European approach in the gradual lifting of restrictions. The measures should be based on scientific knowledge, focused on public health, consistent across the […]
Written question to the European Commission On 17 August 2020, the New York Times published an article entitled ‘Taking Hard Line, Greece Turns Back Migrants by Abandoning Them at Sea’. It documents how migrants landing on Greek soil have been forced onto precarious life rafts by the Greek authorities on multiple occasions and dropped at […]
On Tuesday, 27. October 2020, members of Committee on Culture and Education exchanged views with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and gave their thoughts on the situation on the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts. Thousands of people have formed a chain in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest in protest at what they say […]
On Thursday, 22 October 2020, MEPs discussed the serious security threats posed by the sale of European Union passports and visas to third-country nationals. Offering citizenship in exchange for cash undermines the foundations of democracy and exposes our society to corruption. The problem of the so called system of “Golden visas” was firstly pointed out […]