The PRC national security law for Hong Kong and the need for the EU to defend Kong Kong’s high degree of autonomy

Reference RC-B9-0169/2020

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How the groups voted

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The Left39

51716145%

S&D146

127081194%

Greens/EFA67

The European Parliament adopted by 565 votes to 34, with 62 abstentions, a resolution on the People’s Republic of China national security law for Hong Kong and the need for the EU to defend Kong Kong’s high degree of autonomy.The text adopted in plenary had been tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.Parliament deplored Beijing's unilateral imposition of the National Security Act on Hong Kong, which constitutes a comprehensive assault on the city's autonomy, rule of law and fundamental freedoms and seriously threatens the principle of ‘one country, two systems’ enshrined in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the 1990 Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)…