While welcoming the adoption of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, MEPs called, on Thursday 8 July, for the regime to be extended to corruption.
“Corruption has a devastating impact on the state of human rights, and often undermines the functioning and legitimacy of institutions and the Rule of law”, said the resolution by the Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Sub-committee on Human Rights, David McAllister (EPP, Germany) and Maria Arena...