{"id":587,"date":"2019-06-24T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=587"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:13:24","slug":"european-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"European Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"g477.0\" class=\"debate-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 40px 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e4e2dc; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__row\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; max-width: 63.33333em; width: auto; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__unit\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 17.09375px; direction: ltr; width: 1140px; float: left;\">\n<div class=\"debate-speech__speaker-and-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; width: 663.484375px; float: left;\">\n<h2 class=\"debate-speech__speaker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1em; font-size: 1.4em; position: relative;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?p=10632\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: none; max-width: 50px; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 10px; position: absolute; left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/images\/mps\/10632.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of John Whittingdale\"><span class=\"debate-speech__speaker__name\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\">John Whittingdale<\/span>&nbsp;<small class=\"debate-speech__speaker__position\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.119999885559082px; line-height: 1em; color: #9d9195; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 36em;\">Conservative, Maldon<\/small><\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.66em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;\">Given the welcome, strong statements by the&nbsp;<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Council\" rel=\"nofollow\">European Council<\/a>&nbsp;about Russia\u2019s behaviour, does the&nbsp;<a class=\"glossary\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Ki ngdom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=264\">Prime Minister<\/a>&nbsp;share my concern about Russia\u2019s possible readmission to full voting membership of the&nbsp;<a class=\"glossary\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" title=\"An international organisation of member states (45 at the time of writing)...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=207\">Council of Europe<\/a>? Does she agree that it sends entirely the wrong message, coming just days after the filing of charges against Russian military officers for the downing of&nbsp;<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MH17\" rel=\"nofollow\">MH17<\/a>, and when Russia remains in illegal occupation of Crimea?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"debate-speech__meta debate-speech__links\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: inherit; float: right; width: 331.734375px; text-align: right;\">\n<li class=\"link-to-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; display: block;\"><span class=\"link-to-speech__label\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #b5acaf;\">Link to this speech<\/span><a class=\"link debate-speech__meta__link\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #9d9195; line-height: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2019-06-24a.471.0#g477.0\">In context<\/a>&nbsp;<a class=\"link debate-speech__meta__link\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #9d9195; line-height: 18px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2019-06-24a.477.0\">Individually<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"link-to-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; color: #b5acaf; display: block;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block;\">(Citation: HC Deb, 24 June 2019, c477)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"g477.1\" class=\"debate-speech\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 40px 0px; direction: ltr; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e4e2dc; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__row\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; max-width: 63.33333em; width: auto; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"full-page__unit\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 17.09375px; direction: ltr; width: 1140px; float: left;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" name=\"g477.1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__speaker-and-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; width: 663.484375px; float: left;\">\n<h2 class=\"debate-speech__speaker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1em; font-size: 1.4em; position: relative;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?p=10426\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: none; max-width: 50px; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin-right: 10px; position: absolute; left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/images\/mps\/10426.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Theresa May\"><span class=\"debate-speech__speaker__name\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\">Theresa May<\/span>&nbsp;<small class=\"debate-speech__speaker__position\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.119999885559082px; line-height: 1em; color: #9d9195; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 36em;\">The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party<\/small><\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"debate-speech__content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.66em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 70px; direction: ltr; font-size: 1em;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;\">My right hon. Friend has spoken up on the illegal annexation of Crimea on a number of occasions. We do not and will never recognise Russia\u2019s illegal annexation of Crimea. As my right hon. Friend will be aware, there has been this difference in Russia\u2019s position in the&nbsp;<a class=\"glossary\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" title=\"An international organisation of member states (45 at the time of writing)...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=207\">Council of Europe<\/a>. Russia has not been paying its contributions to the&nbsp;<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #4faded; line-height: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_of_Europe\" rel=\"nofollow\">Council of Europe<\/a>, but its membership of that body is one of the few ways available to the international community to hold Russia to account for its human rights violations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Conservative, Maldon Given the welcome, strong statements by the&nbsp;European Council&nbsp;about Russia\u2019s behaviour, does the&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;share my concern about Russia\u2019s possible readmission to full voting membership of the&nbsp;Council of Europe? Does she agree that it sends entirely the wrong message, coming just days after the filing of charges against Russian military officers for the downing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}