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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11689

15 December 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 32
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Human rights
European Parliament urges EU to do more to protect human rights activists
Brussels, 14/12/2016 (Agence Europe)

The EU should do more to protect independent journalists, bloggers and human rights activists, said MEPs on Wednesday 14 December when they adopted by 463 to 115 with 113 abstentions, the 2015 annual report on human rights and democracy around the world and the EU’s policy in this domain. This was a report by Josef Weidenholzer (S&D, Austria).

In their marathon report, they ask the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and foreign ministers to regularly add to the...

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