I am outraged by the brutal force that is being used by the Kazakh state forces against the oil workers in Mangistau. On Independence Day, the mask of the Nazarbayev dictatorship, which has been in power continuously since the country became independent in 1991, comes off

The Danish presidency programme reads like a Merkozy tract - no ??investment, just cuts. Such a policy will lead to more unemployment and our group believes this is a disastrous policy.

The European Parliament has already condemned the new Hungarian Constitution. We must thus support Hungarian civil society which merely demands that the EU follow up on its own statements.