Published:
Share:
The future of Europe is now in our hands! In view of the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe, the European progressives have decided to launch a high-level pan-European initiative in Rome on 3 May, where we will outline our ideas on how to reinforce and deepen European integration. The EU needs to take a big leap forward if we want to be ready to seize the next opportunities and tackle the possible challenges.
Many high-level leading progressives will contribute during this special online/in person event, which will be broadcast live from Rome.
Among the speakers: the S&D President, Iratxe García Pérez, the Partito Democratico Secretary, Enrico Letta, the PES President Sergei Stanishev, EU Commissioners Frans Timmermans, Paolo Gentiloni and Nicolas Schmit, the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, former President of the EU Commission, Romano Prodi, the Italian Minister for Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani and the I
Von der Leyen: SofaGate happened ‘because I am a woman’
In an impassioned address to MEPs, the first female president of the European Commission expressed how she felt “hurt and alone, as a woman and as a European” after the recent SofaGate incident in Turkey.
European Parliament Audiovisual: Ursula von der Leyen
27 Apr 2021
For the first time since the diplomatic gaffe in Ankara earlier this month, widely dubbed ‘SofaGate’, Ursula von der Leyen gave members of Parliament a raw insight into her feelings on the incident.
The diplomatic snub saw von der Leyen relegated to a sofa, while Council President Charles Michel and Turkish President Recep Erdoğan took their places on the two gilded chairs provided for the leaders in the centre of the room.
Erdogan’s attack is the latest iteration of repressive, and at times genocidal, anti-Kurdish policies that go back to the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The banning of the HDP will mark the transition of Turkey to outright dictatorship.
Not coincidentally, Turkey has also just quit the Istanbul Convention on violence against women this, as the writer Elif Shafak warns “in a country where three women are killed daily and femicide is a huge crisis . The HDP’s strong pro-feminism contrasts starkly with Erdogan’s crude misogynism.
HDP MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on March 17 and given a one-year prison sentence for a social media post he made five years ago. The party’s imprisoned co-leaders, Leyla Guven and Selahattin Demirtas, are facing decades behind bars Demirtas up to 132 years.
April 20, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal In recent weeks, the autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has moved to ban the pro-Kurdish left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and jailed the 14
th member of the party’s 56-strong parliamentary caucus. Erdogan’s attack is the latest iteration of repressive, and at times genocidal, anti-Kurdish policies that go back to the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The banning of the HDP will mark the transition of Turkey to outright dictatorship.
Not coincidentally, Turkey has also just quit the Istanbul Convention on violence against women this, as the writer Elif Shafak warns “in a country where three women are killed daily and femicide is a huge crisis. The HDP’s strong pro-feminism contrasts starkly with Erdogan’s crude misogynism.
Отпрыск эсэсовца потребовал запретить гражданам России въезд в Евросоюз zavtra.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zavtra.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.