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One-minute speech of MEP Valdemar Tomaševski during the Plenary Session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 17th May 2010 |
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Mr Chairman,
on 24th February together with Latvian and Lithuanian Members of the European Parliament I have submitted a written declaration on equal treatment for farmers in the European Union in which the attention is drawn on the unequal treatment of farmers in the Union.
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The President of the EAPL has Won the Court Case against the Ethics Commission |
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Valdemar Tomaševski, Member of the European Parliament, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, has won the case against the Chief Official Ethics Commission examined in the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court. The Commission will be obliged to withdraw its decision which implicates that the Valdemar Tomaševski's speeches protecting the Polish national minority disparage the reputation of Lithuania.
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Anual Conference of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) |
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Not Let Down the Voters
Nearly 300 people - Members of the Seimas, mayors, governors and administrative workers of the municipalities, councillors, starosts, presidents and vice-presidents of the EAPL circle - took part in the anual conference of the EAPL. The conference took place in the House of Polish Culture in Vilnius last Friday. Regional branches' presidents submitted reports on the EAPL program assumptions implementation in their areais.
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One-minute speech of MEP Valdemar Tomaševski during the Plenary Session of the European Parliament in Brussels on 24th February 2010 |
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Mr Chairman,
I would like to refer to the situation of national minorities in Lithuania whose rights are being constantly reduced. In the areas of compact concentrations of national minorities in Lithuania we have to deal with the general order of removal of bilingual information boards which were present there for 20 years.
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Unresolved Problems of Polish community in Lithuania as a Menace to the Existence of Poles |
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The Polish community in Lithuania has been struggling against various problems for many years which despite the promises of the authorities in Vilnius are not resolved. What is worse, after Lithuania's accession to the European Union some of the standards concerning the rights of national minorities in Lithuania were not only not improved, but even a regress was marked in complying with them. The situation in which the Polish community has found itself after 5 years of Lithuania‘s presence in the EU, namely the questions concerning education, public use of the Polish language in the territories where compact concentration of Poles is observed in the Vilnius district, worsening election standards or longstanding problems of estate restitution (especially land restitution) raises serious concerns about the existense of Polish minority as a community.
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