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
News from the Borders
The Border-News is also available daily directly on your cell phone: Here’s the Telegram-Channel. Here I inform you daily about everything that is happening in the European asylum…
What was important this week.
Here I give an overview of my work and the currently important debates and issues in the European Parliament at the end of the week. Calendar week 46 Schengen…
European Financial Architecture for Development – an overview
In 2018, the EU Council commissioned a group of experts to make an analysis of European development cooperation and its actors and to make suggestions for improvement. The report of the expert group…
Civil society talks in Wrocław: Resilience and Resistance
Our conference against the criminalization of solidarity and in support of civil society On October 22 and 23, our group, my office in Brussels and…
At the Latvian EU external border refugees are deprived of their rights
On August 10, 2021, Latvia declared a state of emergency in four border regions with Belarus due to increasing numbers of refugees. As a result of this decree, the military has been called to the…
Inquiry: cases of "drift-backs" in the Aegean Sea.
I have submitted a question to the Commission on the documented „drift-backs“ in the Aegean Sea. When I asked if the Commission would finally address these human rights violations…
Thick board
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
You want to ask me a question?
Just write me a message via the contact form, but of course you can also send me a message at abgeordnetenwatch or via social .
Erik on Twitter
The reactions to the #Boehmermann video are too woke for me. This Cancel Culture endangers our freedom.
8 million will be invested in #Sea emergency rescue in the coming years.
Dying in the Mediterranean is Europe's second largest humanitarian disaster after war.
Those who drag humanitarian aid through the mud should ask themselves whether their view of humanity is really Christian.
Today we discussed sea rescue in the European Parliament. I was slightly angry after what Manfred Weber said as the group leader of the conservatives, as you may notice. #LeaveNoOneBehind
Only because people were willing to bear consequences in the fight for human rights, there are human rights. If the @DFB doesn't even want to wear a colorful armband out of fear, it shows above all how indifferent it is to human rights and even its own mission for it. #OneLove
It really is a drama how the international sport of football continues to allow itself to be abused by a morally totally depraved and corrupt organization like FIFA for the financial interests of some old rich people. #OneLove #FIFAWorldCup
The CDU has distorted facts and appealed to base instincts in the debate about the # citizen's income. It was never about a competition for better social security or fairer wages. Despite this major crisis, the CDU was primarily concerned with one thing: itself. Shabby.
"This is all so grotesquely inhumane," said @ErikMarquardt, MEP for the #Greens. "Right now, #Europe is spending zero euros on #Sea emergency rescue and can't manage to organize a fair distribution solution." #Italy
https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der_schoene_morgen/_/italien-und-die-seenotrettung.html
@Amirabdolahian @ABaerbock Fuck you.
What a strong signal! While Italy commits a frontal attack on refugee protection and human dignity, the German government for the first time promotes civilian #Sea rescue and clearly opposes leaving people to die in the Mediterranean.
Civilian rescue at sea - government funding for the first time
The federal government provides financial support for the civilian rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
#FIFA is so broken. Human rights are not about a political message. Human rights must be universal. Standing up for them is not a political, left-wing or activist stance, but an imperative of common sense under the rule of law.
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