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Verbatim report of proceedings
Wednesday, 14 March 2018 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Debate with the Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, on the Future of Europe (debate)
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  Mark Demesmaeker (ECR). – Mr President, I would like to welcome Mr Costa. Mr Costa, citizens look at us as a Union where fundamental rights and freedoms are at the core, and where there is no place for authoritarianism. That is why so many are worried by what is going on in Spain and in Catalonia, your neighbours. For more than four months, elected politicians and civil society leaders have been in prison – in pre-trial detention – for their political activities. There are political prisoners in Spain, and so I am asking you: do we really accept that EU governments repress political dissent through arbitrary detention? The Spanish Government imposed direct rule on Catalonia and called regional elections. It is now clear that it just does not accept the results of these elections. So I am asking you: can we allow Member States to suspend democracy? The Taoiseach, your Irish counterpart, told us here that not repression, but dialogue, is the only way out. I couldn’t agree more. Do you agree as well?

 
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