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    © Rauf Guliyev
    European-Parliament-©-Rauf-Guliyev
    Press release |

    Navalny sentenced - quote from Sergey Lagodinsky MEP

    The Moscow District Court has sentenced Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in prison for allegedly violating parole conditions. "This verdict and the crackdown by the security forces and judiciary show that Navalny and the demonstrators have hit a nerve. The Russian people need the backing of the European Union" said Sergey Lagodins…
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    Video |

    Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance In Public Spaces!

    This is not a sci-fi movie or the latest episode of a dystopian tv-show! Throughout the European Union, governments are already experimenting with highly intrusive systems of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. These technologies pose alarming risks for fundamental rights, fuelling mass surveillance and racial discrim…
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    Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
    Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
    Opinion |

    Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance

    Governments are experimenting with highly intrusive facial recognition systems and other biometric mass surveillance in public spaces in the EU. We think they have alarming consequences for fundamental rights and want them to be banned.
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    Event |

    Face surveillance vs Facial Authentication: What is it and why should biometric mass surveillance be banned in the public space?

    Often when people think of facial recognition, they think about unlocking their phones with their face. Facial authentication is used to verify that someone is who they say they are, when for example gaining secured access to a building or traveling through a passport gate. This is a one-to-one comp...
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    Navalny
    Press release |

    Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers

    Commenting on today's virtual meeting of EU foreign ministers, Sergey Lagodinsky, spokesperson on Russia for the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, said: "We in the Greens/EFA group condemn the arrests and brutal crackdown by Russian security forces against peaceful demons...
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    ©hassan-anayi
    European Parliament Strasbourg
    News |

    Greens/EFA debriefing of the plenary session

    Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included: presentation of the Portuguese Presidency, EU global Strategy for COVID-19 vaccination, Inauguration of the new President of the United States and the current political situation, report on decent and affordable housing, the EU Strategy for Gender Equality, debate on the situation in th…
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    Press release |

    Gender Equality Strategy must respond to the needs of all women in Europe

    Members of the European Parliament will vote on a report on the Gender Equality Strategy, released by the Commission last March. The report welcomes the Commission's strategy, which lays out strategic objectives on how to strengthen women’s rights and gender equality in the EU for the coming five years. However, it addresses several short…
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    Press release |

    EFA MEPs welcome self-determination caucus

    EFA MEPs have welcomed the establishment of a self-determination caucus within the European Parliament. This new initiative brings together MEPs from different political groups in support of the right to self-determination for the peoples and communities of the EU's stateless nations and nati...
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    Justice
    Justice
    Press release |

    European Arrest Warrant must not be exploited for political reasons

    EFA MEPs Diana Riba and Jordi Solé have spoken out against attempts to politicise the operation of the European Arrest Warrant. The European Parliament has been reviewing the implementation of the European Arrest Warrant, which allows those accused of serious crimes to be extradited from o...
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    Turkish Flag/ CC0 Dima Rogachevskiy
    Turkish Flag/ CC0 Dima Rogachevskiy
    Press release |

    Prisoners of conscience in Turkey

    MEPs will debate and vote on an urgency resolution on the human rights situation in Turkey, notably the case of Selahattin Demirtaş and other prisoners of conscience, and urge for their immediate release. One of the less known prisoners of conscience is Cihan Erdal, a member of the youth wing of Turkey’s Green Left Party.