27. Deplores the control and censorship of the internet by the Chinese authorities; notes with concern that the Chinese Government is tightening its surveillance of the internet by means of a new law that forbids people from betraying state secrets, harming national pride, endangering the country’s ethnic unity or making calls for ‘illegal protests’ or ’mass meetings’; notes that there is therefore no longer any real limit on censorship or persecution; is concerned by the lack of safeguards provided under the new law, making it possible to use it in an abusive way; emphasises that the terms ‘illegal protests’ and ’mass meetings’ shou ...[+++]ld only be used in situations where a law on peaceful and legal protests exists and is effective; encourages the Chinese Government to allow the expression of a plurality of opinions on the internet, in the media and, more generally, in the public sphere; recalls that the right to freedom of expression on the internet has recently been recognised by the UN Human Rights Council;

D. whereas Suleiman Al-Shamar, leading member of the Democratic National Community, and Khalil Hussein, President of the Public Relations Office at the Kurd Future Trend, were sentenced to ten years" imprisonment for "weakening the national ethic" and "conspiring with a foreign country",

D. whereas Suleiman Al-Shamar, leading member of the Democratic National Community, and Khalil Hussein, President of the Public Relations Office at the Kurd Future Trend, were sentenced to ten years" imprisonment for "weakening the national ethic" and "conspiring with a foreign country",

D. whereas Suleiman Al-Shamar, leading member of the Democratic National Community, and Khalil Hussein, President of the Public Relations Office at the Kurd Future Trend, were sentenced to ten years in prison for ‘weakening the national ethic’ and ‘conspiring with a foreign country’,

Development partnerships, which are the ultimate beneficiaries of financial aid, bring together all the parties that are interested and have something to contribute: public authorities at national, regional or local level, local authorities, public employment services, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), enterprises and especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and the social partners.

At least for my party in Finland, the National Coalition, the streamlining of legislation and an end to the needless churning out of directives became one of the main objectives in the last European Parliament elections.