Things are not as they were. That’s an old truth, always overshadowed by the fact that our experience and learning come from the past and are the main tools with which we understand the world. We always tend to look at the world through the glasses of yesterday, trying to Läs mer…
As world leaders prepare to meet this month at the United Nations in New York, we call on them to take urgent steps to reduce the risks of nuclear confrontation. We join a growing number of international leaders in raising the alarm over new nuclear dangers. Last month we witnessed Läs mer…
To: Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission Brussels, 14 March 2019 Dear President Juncker, We, Members of the European Parliament, are addressing you in order to express our great concerns regarding the Troika Laundromat case and ask for appropriate measures to be taken by the European Commission. As Läs mer…
On Thursday, the European Parliament will vote on a resolution to introduce a sanctions regime for human rights violations, more known as a ”European Magnitsky Act”. The Parliament has prior to this adopted a report on EU-Russia political relations, which included a call for a European Magnitsky Act. We must now Läs mer…
Gunnar Hökmark ifrågasatte att de Gröna ledamöterna i Europaparlamentet röstade emot att kalla Magnitskijlagstiftningen vid dess rätta namn. En sådan lag skulle innebära möjligheten att frysa sanktioner och visum för dem som begår grova människorättsbrott.
Gunnar Hökmark’s speech to the Euronest Economic committee, where he comments the report ”Facilitating digitalisation to improve efficiency and stimulate economic growth in the EU and Eastern Partnership countries” which Gunnar Hökmark is the rapporteur for. Mr Chairman, dear colleagues, Digitalisation has become a mysterious mantra for something that some Läs mer…
Gunnar Hökmark deltog i Euractiv’s panelsamtal med Europaparlamentariker Sven Giegold om framtiden för Europas ekonomi, där Gunnar bland annat underströk behovet av strukturreformer och främjandet av innovation och konkurrenskraft för att göra Europa till centrum för global utveckling.
With the negotiations on the European Defence Fund about to start, the European Union possesses a chance to take a giant leap forward towards strengthening both the competitiveness of the European defence industry and the Union´s capacity to influence security policy on a global scale. In order to achieve that, Läs mer…