EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Russia

European Parliament’s main political groups want Russia to be declared a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’

Brussels, 19/10/2022 (Agence Europe)

MEPs of the European Parliament’s main political groups backed, in the evening of Tuesday 18 October, the classification of Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Only the Irish MEP, Claire Daly, for The Left, rejected the term. The Parliament will vote on a resolution to this effect in November.

In the debate, Andrzej Halicki (Polish), on behalf of the EPP, called on Member State governments to recognise Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism, as a terrorist state”. “We must...