Live: EU parliament debates Baltic sea threats, power value poverty, human rights breaches, & extra

Debates on the agenda of the EU parliament plenary session:

– Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal – A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU
– Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts
– Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea
– Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty
– Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union
– Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU
– Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 150)
Hong Kong, notably the cases of Jimmy Lai and the 45 activists recently convicted under the national security law
– The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran
– The shrinking space for civil society in Cambodia, in particular the case of the labour rights organisation CENTRAL
– The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria
– Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments

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