ECR Group @ecrgroup@respublicae.eu

Today on World Down Syndrome Day 🧦, let's celebrate the unique, precious lives of individuals with Down Syndrome.

🖐️ We must continue advocating for their rights and supporting them and their families.

#WorldDownSyndromeDay

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1638057852743843840

💶 "It's very important to work effectively over a very short period of time with consumers, households, and #SMEs. Stability and growth must be our priorities."

🗣 ECR MEP @DenisNesci to @ecb President @Lagarde in @EP_Economics.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1637862900608950308

In @EP_Trade today, ECR MEP @GeertBourgeois appealed to Commissioner @VDombrovskis for results on a 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺 trilateral agreement on trade and technology. #TTC

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1637860740479475720

"There’s a need to replenish our military stocks, especially where gaps exist after our shipments of weapons to 🇺🇦 #Ukraine."

🗣 ECR MEP @ZdzKrasnodebski as @EP_Industry Co-Rapporteur on the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act. #EDIRPA

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1637844351853142023

🚨 The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir #Putin for the crime of forcibly deporting in excess of 16,000 Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation.

He must face the consequences of his war crimes.

#PutinWarCrimes @IntlCrimCourt

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636787896714919937

The poisoning of schoolgirls is a frontal attack on girls' educations, which has so far gone unchallenged in Iran.

The Islamic Republic's regime's months of inaction and deliberate suppression of credible reports of systematic poisoning of the girls is unacceptable.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636357697330196480

"This initiative lacks balance and objectivity. It focuses on eliminating pesticides by 2035 and restoring biodiversity, but is lacking in voicing support for farmers and their livelihoods."

🗣 ECR MEP @beatamk in #EPlenary on the 'Save Bees and Farmers' citizens' initiative.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636313424710836224

"Citizens initiatives represent an essential exercise."

🗣 ECR MEP @RookmakerDorien praises the 'Save bees and farmers' initiative for bringing citizens closer to decision-making processes. #EPlenary

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636311582589304833

"We need to balance the interests of farmers and their futures with the livelihoods and food production capacities of bees and other pollinators." 🗣 ECR MEP @zbigniewkuzmiuk in #EPlenary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636301680739229697

🥕 "We should also add to the title, 'the guarantee of safe and secure food to consumers'."

🐝 "80% of our crops depend on pollinators, meaning farmers and beekeepers constitute one coherent community."

🗣 ECR MEP Jurgiel on the initiative, 'Save bees and farmers!' #EPlenary

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636301525159911425

🐝 "Who doesn't love bees? But unfortunately this is a one sided approach." 🗣 @AnnaZalewskaMEP in the #EPlenary on the European Citizens' Initiative, 'Save bees and farmers!'

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636292293874397184

🐝🧑‍🌾 "There’s a justified call from citizens to give more attention to pollinators and farmers. We have to have a clear framework and a sped-up approval procedure for low-risk pesticides."

🗣 MEP @hjaruissen on the European citizens' initiative 'Save bees and farmers!' #EPlenary

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636289906631639042

“Our answer must have real consequences for those that took the decision to perpetrate these evil acts against young girls and strike at the political and economic foundations of the Islamist theocracy.” 🗣️ @weimers

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636125557892038657

“These girls are not mere numbers – another statistic – but individuals. They have – or rather should have – the same unalienable rights to life and liberty as our own daughters.”

🗣️ ECR MEP @weimers in #EPlenary on the poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls. #Iran

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636125553668284418

"The love that people are willing to give to neglected children is something very noble, but only when the child's interests are put first."

🗣 ECR MEP @ladislav_ilcic in the #EPlenary on intercountry adoption from third countries.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636095264745304065

"Life is a gift to be celebrated. What could possibly happen in the heart of someone to prevent them from rejoicing at the beginning of a new life?" 🗣 ECR MEP @MargaPisa in the #EPlenary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636078462430507017

"The war in #Ukraine has revealed many opportunities for organised crime: Cyberattacks, arms trafficking, people trafficking, and even sexual exploitation." 🗣 ECR MEP @jbrudzinski in #EPlenary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636066821685092352

"Once again, we’re talking about the tragic deaths at sea taking place between Africa and Europe. Migrants will continue to die as long as the EU continues with its policy." 🗣 ECR MEP @weimers in #EPlenary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636066799492972545

📣 "We were living with an absurd sense of security. It turns out that today we don’t have enough ammunition or the capacities to produce it."

🗣 ECR MEP @ZdzKrasnodebski in the #EPlenary debate on strengthening EU defence in the context of the war in 🇺🇦 #Ukraine.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636057065398386689

"Commissioner @YlvaJohansson's good intentions unfortunately lead us nowhere. We’re getting used to the fact that there’s not much support from the @EU_Commission when it comes to avoiding deaths at sea."

🗣 ECR MEP @Assita_Kanko in #EPlenary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1636053568938450947