Tag: Member of Parliament

MEPs Attempt to Ban Pro-Life Lobbyists from EU Parliament

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión noted that the request to remove pro-life lobbyists was based on the assumption that abortion is a fundamental human right, though it has never been enshrined as such in European law.

Germany’s Catholic Center Party Returns to Parliament 

The party, originally established in 1870 to represent Catholic interests, gained a federal lawmaker on Tuesday after Schleswig-Holstein MP Uwe Witt, who in December left the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, announced his decision to switch party affiliations.

AfD Lawmaker Attacked by Left-Wing Extremists

Nikolaus Kramer, the AfD group leader for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, condemned the attack on Michael Meister saying: “How did we reach a place in this country where MPs are attacked on the street because of their party membership?”