Michael Gahler
Member of the European Parliament · PPE · DE
“Mr President, colleagues, High Representative, I think that what Russia does in these circumstances fits well into their strategy of testing us out. That is what is happening: they look how we are reacting, and if we are not reacting adequately, they will go further.”
“Mr President, colleagues, among the many repressed groups in Iran, there has been one group that has been particularly persecuted and prosecuted since the mullahs took over, and that is the Baha'i community.”
“Das ist nicht nur deswegen kein NATO-Fall, aber wir sehen nicht nur an unseren Tankstellen, dass die Konsequenzen dieses Krieges uns unmittelbar betreffen.”
“Frau Präsidentin, Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Wie so häufig in jüngster Zeit wurde auch dieser Europäische Rat, der sich eigentlich primär mit der Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit befassen sollte, von der Wirklichkeit eingeholt.”
“With regard to the fulfilment of the political criteria, there cannot be flexibility – they must be fulfilled. But for the economic criteria, such as access to the single market, we have already practised transitional periods, which would enable us to take a country in without having the full effects, either on the existing Member States…”
“Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, just to the previous speaker, if the Ukrainians think that the president does not fulfil his purposes, in Ukraine, you can change your president, contrary to Russia. That's the reality.”
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“Mr President, colleagues, Commissioner, Presidency, Lukashenka again holds fake elections. And while there is large public focus on Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, or the manipulated elections in Georgia, or Russia's unsuccessful attempts to turn the majorities around in Moldova, we need to keep the Belarus dictatorship on the agenda and support the legitimate representatives like Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. In our resolution, we have enumerated some of the more than a thousand inmates, and I have been the political godfather for many years of Pavel Seviarynets, who is innocent and who is in prison– one of those who are active in democratic parties. I call on the Council and the Commission, please check on the on the agenda of sanctions where Belarus serves as an escape route for sanctions against Russia.”