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20 Most Recent Speeches
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Speech by Simon Hughes MP on Mon 18th Jan 2010
It is very difficult to imagine public life in London without Peter Moore. Peter was such a large part of so many major occasions - and known to so many. He was known to hundreds if not thousands personally and tens of thousands by his activities and his reputation.
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Speech by Sarah Ludford MEP delivered to Commissioner-Designate Stefan Fule on Wed 13th Jan 2010
I am now going to give you the chance to specifically talk about Bosnia. Last year a US academic charged that the EU lacked a viable policy towards Bosnia. And indeed, you omitted any mention of Bosnia in your list of policy priorities in your written answers. Meanwhile Bosnia and Herzegovina is a dysfunctional state sliding towards disintegration. It was judged unfit to get visa liberalisation on December 19th, while Serbian citizens among others did.
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Read "Question to Commissioner-designate Stefan Fule (enlargement and neighbourhood policy) about Bosnia" in full
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Speech by Sarah Ludford MEP delivered to European Parliament on Wed 16th Dec 2009
Sarah Ludford (ALDE). - Mr President, the Council conclusion is indeed a welcome vigorous statement of the EU position and its intention to play a much stronger role in a reinvigorated Quartet engagement. Do the Council and Commission therefore agree that the approach urged on it by some, which is to boycott Israel, is completely the wrong route to that engagement? You cannot boycott and engage at the same time. Indeed, the right approach is the one also stressed by the Council conclusions, which is to reaffirm the further development of bilateral relations with Israel. However tempting it is, the Council can only be an influential player politically, as well as with economic support, if it resists the temptations - motivated sometimes by frustration at one or other of the parties - to have some sort of sanctions or punish one or the other. It is too complex a situation and it simply undermines a consistent, coherent EU pressure on both parties to get back to the table and have a peace agreement.
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Read "Sarah speaks to the European Parliament about the Middle East conflict"
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Speech by Sarah Ludford MEP delivered to European Parliament on Mon 14th Dec 2009
Sarah Ludford (ALDE). - Mr President, I want to deplore the deeply worrying decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court on Friday to close the Democracy Society Party, which represents largely Kurdish interests, and to ban from politics its leading MPs. This is a very retrograde step and will be used as a pretext to return to violence by extremists. It closes off the democratic political option which the Prime Minister, Mr Erdogan, has said he wants to pursue.
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Speech by Sarah Ludford delivered to the European Parliament on Wed 11th Nov 2009
Sarah Ludford, rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. − Madam President, the commitment supported in the Fajon report and backed by the proposed Council and Parliament declaration is a far-sighted one. It is to give visa-free travel to all the people of the Western Balkans. This is not solely a generous and altruistic move. It is also hard-headed and shrewd, since security in the widest sense of the word will be promoted and advanced. People who are free, and free to travel, tend to be committed to peaceful solutions and less prey to introverted nationalism which is a security threat.
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Read "Sarah's speech to the European Parliament on visa-free travel for the Western Balkans" in full
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Speech by Sarah Ludford MEP delivered to European Parliament on Mon 26th Oct 2009
Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Madam President, on behalf of the ALDE Group I strongly welcome the fact that this resolution calls for a strengthened strategic partnership between the EU and the US as a cornerstone of EU external policy. It also rightly reiterates the role of an integrated transatlantic market by 2015. We must not let the trees of myriad disagreements on specific issues obscure the wood of an overwhelming interest in common values and objectives, and action on promotion of democracy and human rights, resolution of conflicts and protection against security threats among others.
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Speech by Sarah Ludford MEP delivered to the European Parliament on Mon 19th Oct 2009
Mr President, our colleague Mr Coelho has yet again justified his middle name: Carlos 'Schengen' Coelho. He is our resident expert on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and we are very grateful for his work and his expertise. He has done very good forensic reports on these proposals and they highlight what an awful muddle the European Union is in regarding monitoring and evaluation.
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Speech by Sarah Ludford delivered to European Parliament on Tue 15th Sep 2009
Sarah Ludford, on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Madam President, the ALDE Group firmly and consistently supports the goal of EU accession for all the Western Balkan countries. We are aiming to equip their citizens to join an integrated free movement area with a single market and common values.
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Read "Sarah speaks about visas for the Western Balkans" in full
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Speech by Sarah Ludford (on behalf of the ALDE group) delivered to European Parliament on Wed 1st Apr 2009
Mr President, my regulation on biometric visas is now being incorporated in this new visa code, so I feel I have a little bit of ownership of it. It will work with the visa information system, for which I was the rapporteur.
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Read "Sarah speaking about the Community Code on visas" in full
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Speech by Paul Burstow on Wed 25th Mar 2009
I present the petition on behalf of tenants in the London borough of Sutton, which includes my constituency of Sutton, Cheam and Worcester Park. It highlights what tenants in my constituency regard as daylight robbery: 38p in every pound of the rents that they pay to the London borough of Sutton goes to the Treasury rather than towards maintaining their homes in my constituency.
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