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MEPs are deeply worried by the recent Taliban decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the respective human rights situations in Russia, North Korea and Guatemala.
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Subcommittee on Human Rights

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 236 - Entwurf eines Berichts Bericht über den Bericht 2021 der Kommission über Montenegro
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Tonino Picula

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 39 - Entwurf einer Stellungnahme Die künftige europäische Finanzarchitektur zur Förderung der Entwicklung
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Isabel Santos

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 294 - 562 - Entwurf eines Berichts Bericht über den Bericht 2021 der Kommission über die Türkei
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Nacho Sánchez Amor

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 293 - Entwurf eines Berichts Bericht über den Bericht 2021 der Kommission über die Türkei
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Nacho Sánchez Amor

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A European Parliament delegation, which travelled to the Republic of Moldova against the backdrop of a worsening security situation in Europe, finalised its visit on Saturday.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 236 - Draft report Report on the 2021 Commission Report on Montenegro
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Tonino Picula

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 39 - Draft opinion The future European Financial Architecture for Development
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Isabel Santos

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BERICHT ÜBER EINEN ARBEITSBESUCH im Anschluss an die Reise einer Delegation des Ausschusses für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (AFET) am 3./4. November 2021 nach Ottawa (Kanada)
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BERICHT ÜBER EINEN ARBEITSBESUCH im Anschluss an die Reise zum Sitz der Vereinten Nationen in New York (USA) vom 1. bis 2. November 2021
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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There is a general perception in Western countries that the role of values as a foreign policy driver is currently on the decline. This study in the series ‘global trends in external policies’ seeks to contribute to the debate by investigating what is meant by ‘values’, whether their importance is on the wane and, if so, how this manifests itself, and how the European Union (EU) can respond to these trends. The broad concept of values has therefore been split into five categories. Socio-cultural values are implicit drivers of foreign policy. In the case of the EU, these are characterised by diversity. ‘Political values’ is used as a term to describe the fundamental principles of political and public action, defining the relationship between the state and its citizens. For the EU, these are often referred to as the triad of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Economic values characterise the nature of the prevailing economic system in a country. The EU advocates a social market economy. The term ‘Earth values’ refers to the inclusion of environmental considerations in external policies. The EU has become a leader in promoting sustainability. Resulting from the preceding four are ‘international order values’, which characterise the overall international outlook of actors. The EU’s international order value is ‘principled pragmatism’. This study compares the EU’s values with those of four reference countries: the US, Turkey, Russia and China. The US in the West comes closest to many of the EU’s values, but does not overlap completely. Turkey and Russia are in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood and increasingly disagree with the EU on values. Chinese values overlap least with the EU’s values. The study confirms a decline in the influence of the political values preferred by the EU. This decline appears to correspond to a clear West-East spectrum. However, the study also notes an opposite trend of increasing influence of Earth values. For these, a Eurocentric spectrum appears more adequate. For economic values, the definition of trends depends on benchmarks and methodology. The international order notion of ‘principled pragmatism’ has been extended to ‘EU strategic autonomy’. Values are often considered as part of EU strategic autonomy and some policies, such as EU accession or trade policy, incorporate them. A values-based approach to external policies should differentiate according to the partner country and the value category concerned. Whereas cooperation on political values does not appear to be fruitful with certain countries, continued efforts on economic or Earth values may still be possible. The study explores what such a differentiated approach could mean for the four reference countries in the near future. Such an approach should also take into account the differing perceptions of partner countries. Although positive avenues of cooperation on, for example, Earth values are still possible, geopolitical tensions, partly rooted in differing values, are overshadowing this path.
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MEPs from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Security and Defence Subcommittee will visit Moldova from 31 March to 2 April, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President of the European Parliament has established a number of measures to contain the spread of the virus and to safeguard Parliament's core activities. The current precautionary measures do not affect work on legislative priorities.
Core activities are maintained to ensure the smooth running of the institution's legislative, budgetary, and scrutiny functions.

The next ordinary AFET Committee meeting will take place on 20-21 April 2022

AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2022
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