EU faces fresh calls to take ‘clear and resolute action’ against Vladimir Putin
A parliamentary debate with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will see Russia again at the forefront of deliberations for MEPs on Wednesday.
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28 Apr 2021
A parliamentary debate with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will examine Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment and treatment, Russian military build-up on the Ukraine border and the recent Czechia-Russia diplomatic row, as well as the recent Chinese sanctions against several European entities and politicians.
The debate will be followed by a resolution which is expected to strongly condemn Russia.
A spokesman for the EPP said the group “believes that it is Europe’s collective duty to reaffirm its support for Ukraine and calls on Member States and the Commission to take clear and resolute action against Russia in the case of further escalation.”
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Poland s former prime minister has been criticised for photos that are claimed to have been taken at post-mortem examinations of victims from a 2010 disaster.
Ewa Kopacz was the country s health minister when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board.
But new images, broadcast last weekend in a controversial documentary about the disaster, claim to show Kopacz posing alongside body bags at a Russian medical facility. Euronews has been unable to independently verify the images.
In them, Kopacz can be seen wearing a protective apron and gloves while holding the arm of a physician in one photograph. In another, the former health minister is smiling while in conversation with another employee at the morgue. It is not clear whether Kopacz is standing next to the bodies of any victims of the crash in the images.
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Poland s Senate approves Holocaust bill that sparked a row with Israel
Poland s upper house has passed a contentious law that could punish anyone who accuses the country of complicity in the crimes of Nazi Germany. Israel has condemned the legislation as offensive and wrong.
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The upper house, which is controlled by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, passed the controversial Holocaust bill by 57-23 with two abstentions, despite demands by Israel that it be changed.
Those found guilty under the legislation could receive a fine or a three-year prison sentence for using the term Polish death camp to refer to concentration camps built on Polish soil by Nazi occupiers. Accusing Poland of involvement in the Third Reich s atrocities would also be illegal.