Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 9 March 2011 - Strasbourg

10.1. 2010 progress report on Turkey (B7-0156/2011) (vote)

  Ria Oomen-Ruijten (PPE). – Mr President, I would like to announce the following. I reached an agreement with the shadows on my oral amendment to paragraph 18. This means that amendment 26 to paragraph 18 will be withdrawn by Ms Flautre. Therefore, I advise my group to vote in favour of amendment 29 to this paragraph.

– Before the vote on paragraph 18:

  Ria Oomen-Ruijten (PPE). – Mr President, I have an oral amendment to add in paragraph 18: ‘is concerned by the lack of progress in these investigations and notes that the recent detention of well-known journalists such as Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık might lead to a loss of credibility of these trials which should, on the contrary, strengthen democracy’.

(Parliament agreed to accept the oral amendment)