For my part, I am proud that this Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize to a dissident, Hu Jia, and I am proud that we did not give in to what the Presidency wanted to do, namely to prostrate ourselves before the Chinese whilst they imprison and torture people on a daily basis and the European Union says nothing, just as it said nothing when Mr Putin arrested a crowd of demonstrators who were demanding nothing more than social equality.
Moi, je suis fier que ce Parlement ait donné le prix Sakharov à un dissident, Hu Jia, et je suis fier qu’on n’ait pas subi ce que la Présidence a voulu faire, se mettre à genoux devant les Chinois qui, quotidiennement, mettent en taule, torturent, alors que l’Union européenne ne dit rien.