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REPORT REVEALS THE NETWORK OF INFLUENCE WOVEN BY THE IRANIAN REGIME AND ITS ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE IN EUROPEAN POLITICS
On January 23rd, in an event organized and chaired by MEP Zarzalejos, the report entitled “Tracing Iran’s network of influence in European politics”, prepared by the group Friends of a Free Iran, was presented at the European Parliament. The event was attended by several experts, including Struan Stevenson, member of the International Committee for the…
THE BASQUE EXODUS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF IDEOLOGICAL PERSECUTION
On January 23rd, MEP Zarzalejos participated in the presentation in the European Parliament of the report “The Basque exodus as a result of ideological persecution” prepared by the Center for Studies, Training and Social Analysis CEU-CEFAS and led by the director of the Director of the CEU Observatory of Victims of Terrorism, Maria San Gil…
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WILL ASK FOR EXPLANATIONS FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE AMNESTY LAW
The European Parliament decided on January 22nd to ask the Spanish Government for explanations for the amnesty law. It was in the Committee on Petitions, chaired by the vice-president of the European People’s Party group, Dolors Montserrat, where eight petitions from citizens denouncing before the European Parliament that the amnesty is an attack on the…
LAUNCH OF INTERINSTITUTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ON THE EUROPEAN HEALTH DATA SPACE
On November 13, the European Parliament approved in plenary its negotiating position on the European Health Data Space. The report, supported by 516 votes in favor, 95 against and 20 abstentions, will allow greater access to the health data of European Union (EU) citizens and facilitate the use of electronic health data for research, innovation,…
“THE PPE WILL NOT FOLLOW THE SOCIALISTS IN THEIR DIRECTION TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC DEGRADATION; WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR THE EUROPE OF LAW AND JUSTICE”
See the full intervention The PP MEP Javier Zarzalejos assured Pedro Sánchez on December 13 that the European People’s Party, Europe’s leading political force, “will not follow the Socialists in their direction towards institutional and political degradation; we will continue to fight for the Europe of law, law and institutions”. He did so in the…
SAKHAROV PRIZE AWARDED TO JINA MAHSA AMINI AND THE ‘WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM’ MOVEMENT
On Tuesday, 12 December, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Iranian national Jina Mahsa Amini and the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement, in recognition of her courage in speaking out for a better, free and democratic Iran. Jina Mahsa Amini was killed on September 12, 2022 by Iran’s morality police…
SPEECH AT THE LIBE INTERPARLIAMENTARY MEETING ON THE STATE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN THE EU
Watch video We cannot accept that those who have seriously violated the Constitution go unpunished. 60% of Spaniards believe that the amnesty is unfair and is a privilege and 85% are very clear that the only explanation for the amnesty that will benefit the Catalan secessionists is that Pedro Sánchez can govern. In Spain we…
VISIT OF A GROUP FROM THE TOCQUEVILLE-CIVISM CLUB
On November 30, Javier Zarzalejos received in the European Parliament a group of the Tocqueville Club, a civil society initiative to help update and disseminate the vision of a constitutionalist Catalonia that values the principles of the rule of law and liberal democracy. In his speech, the MEP addressed the most sensitive issues for the…
ZARZALEJOS WELCOMES THE FACT THAT THE NEW VICTIMS’ DIRECTIVE REINFORCES THE INTEGRITY, DIGNITY AND ASSISTANCE OF THOSE AFFECTED BY CRIME IN THE EU
The PP MEP Javier Zarzalejos presented last November 29th in the Joint Committee on Civil Liberties and Women (LIBE-FEMM) the draft report on the revision of Directive 2012/29/EU on the rights of victims of crime, for which he has been rapporteur in LIBE. The MEP welcomed that “the new Victims Directive strengthens the protection of…
MEETING WITH UNED STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
On November 28 and 29, the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) held an international congress at its Associated Center in Brussels under the title “Elections 2024. The challenges of the European Union”, and in which topics such as European identity, the current prospects of the European Parliament as a representative body, the challenges…