Grupo Renew Europe
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Fecha de nacimiento : , Gentofte
Inicio Karen MELCHIOR
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Acuerdo entre la Unión Europea y la República de Albania en lo que respecta a las actividades operativas llevadas a cabo por la Agencia Europea de la Guardia de Fronteras y Costas en la República de Albania (A9-0036/2024 - Lena Düpont) EN
The safeguards on human rights for FRONTEX are not strong enough for me to be able to send them to do operational activities outside the EU, even in a close country and partner such as Albania. Therefore I could not support the recommendation.
Adopción de la medida especial en favor de Túnez para 2023 (B9-0173/2024) DA
Vi skal støtte demokratierne i vores naboskab. Vi skal modsætte os politisering af immigration og flygtninge, når Putin og Lukashenko presser flygtninge ind over vores grænser. Men hvad gør vi selv? Hvad gør EU-Kommissionen, når Rådet misbruger Kommissionen som et checkhæfte til at udstede blankochecks? For budgetstøtte, det er ikke sektorpolitik. Det er ikke støtte til migrationspolitik. Det er støtte til staten. Det er støtte til den illegitime præsident i Tunesien. Derfor støttede jeg resolutionen der kritiserede Kommissionens ageren.
Ley Europea de Libertad de los Medios de Comunicación (A9-0264/2023 - Sabine Verheyen) EN
In its 2023 report, the Civil Liberties Union for Europe sounded the alarm about a steady decline in press freedom in Europe. It is that decline that the European Media Freedom Act sought to undo.
And while the report does contain some measures to protect European Journalists, unfortunately it also empowers governments to spy on journalists, and institutionalises the use of spyware. I believe that the right to private correspondence is a cornerstone of journalistic freedom, and that allowing the use of spyware, even in limited contexts, will inevitably be abused.
As the adopted regulation of surveillance and spyware in Article 4 is largely insufficient to halt spyware abuses and a truly missed opportunity to protect fundamental rights in practice. It is crucial to prevent this text from establishing a bad precedent that is permissive of state interferences and abuses in the future. It would negatively impact not just journalists but the EU population as a whole.
For this reason, I wasn’t able to support the law, and abstained as there are other positive elements.
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