On April 25, Fiorello Provera from the European Parliament's EFD group and Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee condemned the sentencing to death of former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala on the grounds of selling a house in the West Bank town of Hebron to Jewish residents.

Strongly involved against persecutions of Christians in the world as many Members of the EFD Group, Bas Belder was recently invited by a Dutch TV station to speak on the increasing cases of abductions, rapes, forced conversion and forced marriage of young Christian women in Egypt, like in many countries of the Middle East.

The United Kingdom chairs since November the rotating presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, decision-making body of the pan-European organization in Strasbourg. In a speech few weeks ago, Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the court risked undermining its own reputation by "going over national decisions where it does not need to".

Turkey Report, prepared by European Parliament's rapporteur on Turkey Ria Oomen-Ruijten, was approved at EP with majority of votes on Thursday 29th. It underlines the country's "interdependence" with the EU and calls for Ankara to deliver on reforms. Cristiano Allam, MEP and chairman of the political movement “I love Italy,” who left the EPP Group because of its alliance with the Islamist Turkish Party and joined the EFD Group in the European Parliament, expressed his concerns during the plenary session to review this Report EU enlargement to Turkey. Allam, clarified that neither geographically nor in terms of values and politically Turkey is eligible to join the European Union. Here is the text of his speech: