15. Juni 2016

Yazidi friendship group established in the European Parliament

Jesiden Parlamentary GroupIn the European Parliament in Brussels the Yazidi friendship group was founded this afternoon. On the initiative of Josef Weidenholzer, Austrian MEP and Vice-President of the Socialist Group (S&D) in the European Parliament, today the informal constitutive meeting of the cross-partisan and transnational friendship group for Yazidis took place. Together with Josef Weidenholzer, Petras Auštrevičius (Liberal),  Cornelia Ernst (GUE) and Josef Terribacras (Green) participated as some of the founding members of the friendship group. The group is supported in content and conceptually by Yazidi and Iraqi expert Mirza Dinnayi. In the future, all interested MEPs are invited to support the group.… Weiterlesen