24. Prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: Prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP))

Didier Reynders (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Sandra Kalniete, on behalf of the PPE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Nicola BEER
Vice-President

The following spoke: Juozas Olekas, on behalf of the S&D Group, Petras Auštrevičius, on behalf of the Renew Group, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Thierry Mariani, on behalf of the ID Group, Beata Mazurek, on behalf of the ECR Group, Özlem Demirel, on behalf of The Left Group, Andrius Kubilius, Agnes Jongerius, Vlad Gheorghe, Andrzej Halicki, Thijs Reuten, Liudas Mažylis, Marianne Vind, Miriam Lexmann, Robert Biedroń, Gabriele Bischoff, Ilan De Basso, Carmen Avram and Brando Benifei.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Stanislav Polčák and Sandra Pereira.

The following spoke: Didier Reynders.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 132(2):

- Nikolaj Villumsen, on behalf of The Left Group, on prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0269/2022);

- Sandra Kalniete, Michael Gahler, Rasa Juknevičienė, David McAllister, Vangelis Meimarakis, Siegfried Mureşan, Paulo Rangel, Andrius Kubilius, Jerzy Buzek, Traian Băsescu, Vladimír Bilčík, Vasile Blaga, Daniel Buda, Deirdre Clune, Tomasz Frankowski, Andrzej Halicki, Arba Kokalari, Ewa Kopacz, David Lega, Miriam Lexmann, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Aušra Maldeikienė, Lukas Mandl, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Liudas Mažylis, Luděk Niedermayer, Gheorghe-Vlad Nistor, Janina Ochojska, Stanislav Polčák, Christian Sagartz, Radosław Sikorski, Michaela Šojdrová, Eugen Tomac, Inese Vaidere, Isabel Wiseler-Lima and Milan Zver, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the prosecution of opposition and detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0270/2022);

- Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Francisco Guerreiro, Piernicola Pedicini, Hannah Neumann, Erik Marquardt, Bronis Ropė, Ignazio Corrao and Jordi Solé, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0274/2022);

- Petras Auštrevičius, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Nicola Beer, Olivier Chastel, Vlad Gheorghe, Bernard Guetta, Karin Karlsbro, Georgios Kyrtsos, Nathalie Loiseau, Javier Nart, Urmas Paet, Dragoş Pîslaru, Frédérique Ries, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Michal Šimečka, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Dragoş Tudorache and Hilde Vautmans, on behalf of the Renew Group, on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0275/2022);

- Pedro Marques, Tonino Picula, Thijs Reuten and Juozas Olekas, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0276/2022);

- Anna Fotyga, Adam Bielan, Angel Dzhambazki, Anna Zalewska, Assita Kanko, Beata Kempa, Bogdan Rzońca, Carlo Fidanza, Dominik Tarczyński, Elżbieta Rafalska, Hermann Tertsch, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Ryszard Czarnecki, Valdemar Tomaševski, Veronika Vrecionová, Witold Jan Waszczykowski and Charlie Weimers, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus (2022/2664(RSP)) (B9-0277/2022).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 19.5.2022, item 7.8.