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Azerbaijan and the corruption ‘octopus’ in Europe

A side event of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Summer Session was organised by the assembly’s deputy Pieter Omtzigt about...

S&Ds welcome the prospect of opening accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia

EU governments on Tuesday decided to aim for opening accession negotiations with both Albania and North Macedonia in June 2019. S&D Group regrets the...

EU: The results of the Chisinau mayoral elections must be respected

The non-transparent invalidation of the mayoral elections in Chisinau, confirmed by the Moldovan Supreme Court of Justice in the evening of 25 June, deprives...

Former EU ambassador’s take on Turkey’s ‘strong man’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could not afford to lose this election, so all the possible means were used: unfair campaign, state of emergency,...

EU on the cases of Russian human rights defenders

Yesterday, a court in Chechnya confirmed the detention of Oyub Titiev, head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Chechnya. He was arrested on...

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