Our foreign policy must reflect our values. This means effective measures against human rights abusers and strong vocal support for those risking their lives for freedom and justice. We must ensure that RFE and other essential outlets have access to long-term, stable funding, including from the European Union.

– Mr President, the European Commission confirms its commitment to transparency towards the European Parliament and the Council in the context of macro‑financial assistance (MFA) operations. – The next vote is on the report by Céline Imart on macro-financial assistance to Egypt (see minutes, item 6.11). – Mr President, the European Commission confirms its commitment to transparency towards the European Parliament and the Council in the context of the macro‑financial assistance (MFA) operations. – The next vote is on the report by Céline Imart on macro-financial assistance to Jordan (see minutes, item 6.10). – The next vote is on the report by Dimitris Tsiodras on re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks to the European Chemicals Agency (see minutes, item 6.8). – The next vote is on the report by Tomáš Zdechovský on the partial renewal of a member of the Court of Auditors – Lucian Romașcanu (see minutes, item 6.6).

Or they were the ones who attacked on 7 October. They are the ones who are hiding behind civilians. They are the ones who are using schools and hospitals as shelters for their fighters. They are the ones who are stealing humanitarian aid from the people who need it.

But we don’t have to live without fighting against it. On the contrary, we must be curious and critical, always checking information and questioning what we get. Extra bronnen have to be critical of information sources, and we have to be able to recognise where media is free and where it is not. The second thing is that I’m worried about who will control the spending in defence when on the national level, the Member States will say, but we have our security laws which are protecting us from disclosing the information on spending in defence. However, we will need more time to study more in depth what was written in the documents that were released only a few hours ago.

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We are now setting together the vision for a safe, secure and more resilient European Union. So, honourable Members, as you have seen, ProtectEU has a high level of ambition. Never in the history of the European Union have so many new initiatives in the area of security policy, of course, been put on the table. And I’m asking for your support on all these initiatives, which I know are, I would say, a shared concern for all of us. And because although we no longer have the, I would say, luxury of taking our security for granted, we do have one important advantage because the threats we are facing, also bring us closer together as Europeans. They remind us actually, of our unity, of everything that unites us in Europe, and they give us a sense also of common purpose.

So, protecting children is the most essential duty of any society, I would say, and we must win the fight against child sexual abuse once and for all. And that takes us also back to the to the topic of data access, to how easy it is right now for sexual predators to hide their crimes in the dark corners of cyberspace. We must make very clear that we will not tolerate the erosion of these rights and freedoms that really define us. Now more than ever, we must unite in defence of our common values. Defending human rights and democracy is an opportunity for the European Union to also play on its strength because third countries are also looking towards us in this regard.