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#BREAKING 🇪🇺 European Parliament has just passed a resolution on Chinese countersanctions and the decision to *suspend discussions* on the EU-China Investment Agreement as long as Chinese sanctions on EU parliamentarians are not lifted with 599 votes in favour, 30 against!
— Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊 (@Stand_with_HK) May 20, 2021
MEPs continue to call for the issuing of #Magnitsky style human rights sanctions to officials involved in the human rights abuses in Hong Kong. @EU_Commission should pressure member states to adopt a bolder response to China’s action and suspend any extradition agreements
— Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊 (@Stand_with_HK) May 20, 2021
In the statement announced by @Europarl_EN, it demanded #China to lift the sanctions imposed on European politicians and underlined Parliament will take into account the situation in #HongKong before moving forward to discuss the #CAI Comprehensive Agreement on Investment pic.twitter.com/nfuoZo4unL
— Long Yin (@hongkongersin) May 20, 2021
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Our story on that landslide vote in Parliament is live now. https://t.co/bPSndIlgWn
— Finbarr Bermingham (@fbermingham) May 20, 2021
Correction, Zdanoka is a part of the "EFA" component of the "Greens-EFA" grouping…
— Finbarr Bermingham (@fbermingham) May 20, 2021
Actually, what it exposes is that Merkel was going to steam ahead with a trade deal that wd primarily benefit german carmakers, despite the protestations of meps and activists. It was only after non-eu countries labelled the situation in xinjiang a genocide that she rowed back.
— Steve M (@Steve_M444) May 20, 2021
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#BREAKING: Landslide vote in the #European Parliament to put the #EU's investment deal with #China on hold👍
— Indo-Pacific News – Watching the CCP-China Threat (@IndoPac_Info) May 20, 2021
Motion on stopping discussions on CAI passes by 599 votes to 30, with 58 abstentions https://t.co/TZ8yMe3TxZ
https://t.co/117R1ealRV pic.twitter.com/cAAHGsC7ZG
— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) May 20, 2021
https://t.co/n76pbMoQVU https://t.co/117R1ealRV pic.twitter.com/TfeN3GP22k
— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) May 20, 2021
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BREAKING: European Parliament overwhelmingly (599 to 30) votes to put #CAI ratification officially on hold, condemns in strongest possible terms Beijing's sanctions against EU individuals & entities.
— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) May 20, 2021
For #CAI, this is akin to a death sentence.https://t.co/L2b1Bo7gMv
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