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The European Parliament approved last February 8 a resolution calling for an investigation in Spain into the connections of Members of the European Parliament allegedly associated with the Kremlin and Russia’s attempts at destabilization and interference in the European Union. Specifically, it expressed “deep concern about the massive disinformation campaigns that Russia has carried out…

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…