Erik Marquardt
Member of the European Parliament | greens/EFA | BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN
Hello, my name is Erik and I'm actually a photographer, but I've been a member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. My main topics are flight, migration and human rights. You can ask me your questions on my social media pages, on abgeordnetenwatch or via the Contact form put.
Erik's blog
Resilience and Resistance – Study on the Criminalization of Solidarity.
This study commissioned by the Green Group in the European Parliament analyzes the state of criminalization of solidarity with refugees in the European Union. Full study in English…
Inquiry: rejections at Greek border despite ECtHR interim measures
I have put a question to the Commission about an apparently illegal refoulement by Greece. As reported by the Greek Refugee Council, 94 Syrians, including minors with…
Inquiry: report of the Hellenic Transparency Authority
I asked the EU Commission on 25/05/2022 what it thinks about the Greek authorities immediately taking arriving protection seekers into custody for deportation and putting them in prison…
Former local workers want to go to Germany: „Bureaucratic jungle"
A year ago, the Taliban conquered Kabul. In an interview with RND, I call for the creation of an official contact point for those persecuted, in order to provide advice and applications…
News from the Borders
Here I inform you daily about everything that is happening in European asylum and migration policy and at the external borders. The Border-News is also available daily…
World Time: The Disaster of Afghan Local Forces
I had an in-depth conversation with Weltzeit from Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the anniversary of the Taliban taking power in Kabul. What happened back then was a…
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I think podcasts are a good format for bringing politics closer to citizens, informing them about the issues I am working on and what everyday life is like in the European Parliament, why do parliamentary processes work the way they do and not the other way around, and why do they often work in a different way than you would imagine?
Committees
Development (Vice Chairman)
Civil liberties, justice and home affairs
Delegations
Maschrik
Afghanistan
Euro-Mediterranean
Iraq
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Erik on Twitter
A year ago, the whole world was watching #Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter, the Taliban showed their true colors. In the meantime, 97% live in poverty there, more than half are starving. The people there do not deserve to be forgotten by us.
Kabul Airlift: Calls for focal point for local Afghan forces
The aid organization Kabul Airlift tries to bring people from Afghanistan to Germany. Which is relatively easy...
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I talked to @dlfkultur about the situation of local forces in #Afghanistan. The situation on the ground is devastating, with more than half the population starving. There is still a lack of a central point of contact for local forces and those being persecuted.
One Year of Taliban Takeover - The Disaster of Afghan Local Forces
August 15 marks the anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Thousands of local forces belonging to the Bundeswehr...
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At least 40 people are thought to have drowned off #Rhodos. Because Greece systematically abandons and mistreats people seeking protection at sea, many now try to come directly from Turkey to Italy. This route is much longer and more dangerous.
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2022-08/migration-asylsuchende-aegaeis-karpathos
At the Greek-Turkish border, Greek authorities systematically refuse to accept asylum applications. In one group, a 5-year-old girl has now probably died because the authorities have not let the group leave the island at #Evros for days. @hellenicpolice @kmitsotakis
SOS in Evros - A small girl of 5 reported dead, another in critical condition. They are with a group of refugees stranded on Evros islet for days
Many of them have been pushed back & forth multiple times
112 & @hellenicpolice are informed.
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/NoPkodcDCCwD71Zv9 1/ https://twitter.com/GCRefugees/status/1557000892909510658
Impressive that you can stand in traffic jams for hours on free roads in Germany and then get upset at home about the people who fill the trains from time to time because of a "#Gratismentality". #9EuroTicket
Important #EuGH ruling against the German regulation on family reunification: Family reunification may not be refused because minors come of age during the procedure. Thousands of torn families can now hopefully live together soon!
https://app.handelsblatt.com/wirtschaft-eugh-deutsche-regelung-zum-familiennachzug-ist-rechtswidrig/28565018.html
What kind of community of values is this that pays more money to corrupt slave traders and cruel traffickers than for sea rescue in the Mediterranean? I find this intolerable and hope that the German government can change something about it and position itself more clearly.
The EU is funding the Libyan coast guard knowing that it is supporting a system of torture, slavery and rape.
If Europe becomes indifferent to how cruelly political goals are enforced, we will have lost.
That is why EU funding must end.
I'm always happy when people get upset in major newspapers and talk shows about the fact that you're no longer allowed to say what they say in public. Then I know that freedom of speech is not in danger at all. #CancelCulture
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