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The highlight of the December plenary session was Parliament's award of the 2023 Sakharov Prize to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran. Members held a debate with the Council and European Commission on the preparation of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and reviewed the Spanish Presidency of the Council. Further debates took place on Council and Commission statements on Parliament's call for the right to disconnect, the defence of democracy package, European ...

Le respect des libertés fondamentales et des droits humains est une des valeurs clés de l’Union, que celle-ci promeut dans son action politique. Le prix Sakharov du Parlement européen distingue les travaux de ceux qui se battent pour ces libertés et ces droits. La paix et les droits humains sont de plus en plus menacés, ce qui confirme la pertinence actuelle du prix. Cette année, il a été décerné à Jina Mahsa Amini, qui est décédée, et au mouvement «Femme, vie, liberté» en Iran. La cérémonie de remise ...

José María Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado is so far the only Spaniard from the European People's Party (EPP) to serve as President of the European Parliament. He embodied a particular tradition within Spanish political life: Christian democracy. Son of the historical leader of the Spanish Right during the Second Spanish Republic, Gil-Robles lived with his family in exile in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War. He came back to Spain along with his monarchist father to oppose the dictatorship, and became ...

The highlight of the December 2022 plenary session was the ceremony awarding the 2022 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the brave people of Ukraine. Also, in a 'This is Europe' debate, the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, addressed the plenary. With Council and European Commission representatives, Members debated the preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022. A number of debates also took place: on the outcome of COP27; addressing persistent challenges in the ...

On 23 and 24 September 2022, the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) organised an academic seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of the EU being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and to reflect more broadly on peace today. The seminar started in the Salon de l'Horloge at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the room in which the Schuman Declaration was made 72 years ago. The subsequent sessions were held at the Jean Monnet House, in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, the place where Monnet had drafted ...

Le respect des libertés fondamentales et des droits de l’homme est une des valeurs clés de l’Union, que celle-ci promeut dans son action politique. Le prix Sakharov du Parlement européen distingue les travaux de ceux qui se battent pour ces libertés et ces droits. La paix et les droits de l’homme sont de plus en plus menacés, ce qui confirme la pertinence actuelle du prix. Cette année, le prix Sakharov a été remis au courageux peuple ukrainien, représenté par son président, ses dirigeants élus et ...

A commemorative bust of John Hume (1937-2020) – awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his tireless efforts to bring peace to his native Northern Ireland – was unveiled in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 7 June 2022. Having served as an MEP from 1979 to 2004, John Hume understood the European Parliament as a forum in which to raise attention to the problems of Northern Ireland and build European support for resolving the conflict. And it was also – with a measure of seclusion ...

More than two decades after the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) to enhance recognition of their role and encourage states to create a more protective environment, many human rights defenders face an increasingly hostile environment, with both repressive governments and some non-state actors, such as economic interest or criminal groups, opposing their work and posing a serious threat. Support for human rights defenders is a long established ...

Le respect des libertés fondamentales est une des valeurs fortes de l’Union, que celle-ci promeut par sa politique extérieure. Le prix Sakharov du Parlement européen récompense le travail des défenseurs des droits de l’homme. Il reste plus actuel que jamais à un moment où les droits de l’homme sont remis en question dans de nombreuses régions du monde. Cette année, il a été décerné à Alexeï Navalny, militant russe de l’opposition, dont le courageux refus d’être réduit au silence rappelle l’attitude ...

Andrey Sakharov was a Soviet physicist who played a leading role in his country's nuclear weapons programme. However, in the 1960s he fell out of favour with the regime due to his activism for disarmament and human rights. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Sakharov's legacy is more relevant than ever. Since 1988, the European Parliament has awarded an annual prize for freedom of thought named after him.