Today, heads of state of 51 Asian and European countries will be in Brussels for a summit with the EU.
As members of the European Parliament, we denounce the fact that many countries around the table are major human rights violators. We are therefore calling the EU to wake up and demand more from its partners.
For the past few years, the primacy of human rights has been put into question on the international stage.
A far-right and relativist movement has been increasingly ...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.