BETA


2007/2567(RSP) Resolution on Estonia

Progress: Procedure completed

Legal Basis:
RoP 123-p2

Events

2007/09/05
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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2007/06/14
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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2007/05/24
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2007/05/24
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Details

The European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on Estonia by 460 votes in favour to 31 against with 38 abstentions. It expresses its support for, and solidarity with, the democratically elected Estonian Government in its efforts to ensure order, stability and the rule of law for all residents of Estonia, and regarded attacks targeting one of the smallest EU Member States as a test case for the European Union's solidarity.

To recall, in April 2007, demonstrators protesting against the Estonian Government's decision to relocate the Soviet "monument to the liberators of Tallinn" from the centre of the Estonian capital to the Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces a few kilometres away were responsible for two nights of violence, which started with demonstrators attacking the police and resulted in widespread vandalism in the centre of Tallinn. These attacks were carried out with the active organisation and cooperation of forces located outside Estonia. There were also hostile demonstrations in Moscow outside the Estonian Embassy and physical attacks on the Estonian and Swedish Ambassadors. In addition, systematic cyber attacks have been organised, mostly from outside Estonia, in an attempt to block official communication lines and Estonian administration websites. Those attacks have come from Russian administration IP addresses. Wide-scale restrictions on Estonian exports to Russia were introduced, with Russian companies suspending contracts with Estonian firms, Estonia's energy supplies being threatened and the Estonia-St. Petersburg train connection being suspended with effect from the end of June 2007.

Parliament stated that Estonia, as an independent Member State of the EU and NATO, has the sovereign right to assess its recent tragic past, starting with the loss of independence resulting from the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 and ending only in 1991.

It considered inadmissible the various attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Estonia by the Russian authorities, and was alarmed by the inadequate protection by the Russian authorities of the Estonian embassy in Moscow and by the physical attacks on the Estonian Ambassador by the "Nashi" demonstrators. Parliament condemned the attempts by Russia to exert economic pressure on Estonia as an instrument of foreign policy and called on the Russian Government to restore normal economic relations between the two states. The Russian authorities were reminded that the indiscriminate and openly hostile rhetoric used by the Russian authorities against Estonia is in sharp contrast to the principles of international behaviour and will affect EU-Russia relations generally. The Russian Government must engage in an open and unbiased dialogue with the eastern and central European democracies on the history of the 20th century, as well as on the crimes against humanity, including those of totalitarian communism, committed then.

Parliament called on the Commission and all the Member States to assist in the analyses of the cyber attacks on Estonian websites and to present a study on how such attacks and threats might be addressed at EU level, and called on Russia to assist in these investigations to the full.

Lastly, it welcomed the words of the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who emphasised that people who came to Estonia in Soviet times and now live in the Republic of Estonia, as well as their children and grandchildren, are all Estonian fellow countrymen. All Estonians have their own, very painful experience of life under three consecutive occupying powers in the last century, and there is a need to be able to understand the tragedies of others. He reminded all parties concerned that the Estonian domestic dialogue must be enhanced so as to bridge existing gaps between the different communities and to create new opportunities to integrate Russian-speaking countrymen in particular.

Documents
2007/05/24
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2007/05/22
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2007/05/22
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2007/05/22
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2007/05/22
   EP - Debate in Parliament

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Activities

Votes

RC B6-0205/2007 - Estonie - am. 1 #

2007/05/24 Outcome: -: 309, 0: 133, +: 88
CY IE AT MT LU FI PT SE DK BG NL LT SI EE LV EL SK FR BE HU IT CZ ES RO DE GB PL
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4
1
14
4
6
11
18
14
13
8
26
6
5
6
8
13
13
50
19
17
35
16
32
31
70
47
43
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Austria Verts/ALE

2

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

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1

Finland Verts/ALE

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1

Sweden Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

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1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Italy Verts/ALE

2

Spain Verts/ALE

2

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

3
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
26

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Portugal GUE/NGL

2

Sweden GUE/NGL

2

Denmark GUE/NGL

1

Netherlands GUE/NGL

2

Greece GUE/NGL

2

France GUE/NGL

2

Czechia GUE/NGL

1
icon: PSE PSE
139

Malta PSE

For (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Luxembourg PSE

For (1)

1

Finland PSE

2

Lithuania PSE

Abstain (1)

1

Estonia PSE

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Abstain (1)

3

Greece PSE

2

Slovakia PSE

2

Czechia PSE

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1
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13

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1

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2

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1

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2

Czechia IND/DEM

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1

United Kingdom IND/DEM

4

Poland IND/DEM

2
icon: NI NI
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Slovakia NI

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3

Italy NI

1

Czechia NI

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1

United Kingdom NI

Against (2)

2
2
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Belgium ITS

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1
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Denmark UEN

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Lithuania UEN

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1
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Cyprus ALDE

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Austria ALDE

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Sweden ALDE

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2

Slovenia ALDE

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Estonia ALDE

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Latvia ALDE

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Hungary ALDE

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2
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Estonia PPE-DE

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RC B6-0205/2007 - Estonie - par. 4 #

2007/05/24 Outcome: +: 498, 0: 14, -: 5
DE FR GB PL RO ES IT NL BE CZ AT SE PT HU DK FI EL SK BG LV LT SI LU MT EE CY IE
Total
71
51
47
42
33
32
31
25
19
17
14
13
14
15
11
11
13
13
9
8
6
5
5
4
4
3
1
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Denmark PPE-DE

For (1)

1
3

Bulgaria PPE-DE

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Latvia PPE-DE

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Lithuania PPE-DE

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Luxembourg PPE-DE

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Malta PPE-DE

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Estonia PPE-DE

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Cyprus PPE-DE

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Czechia PSE

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Greece PSE

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Slovakia PSE

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Lithuania PSE

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Malta PSE

2

Estonia PSE

3
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Austria ALDE

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25

France GUE/NGL

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icon: NI NI
9

United Kingdom NI

2

Italy NI

1

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1

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3

RC B6-0205/2007 - Estonie - par. 5 #

2007/05/24 Outcome: +: 491, -: 25, 0: 21
DE GB PL FR ES RO NL IT BE HU PT AT DK SE CZ FI SK BG LV LT EE LU SI MT EL CY IE
Total
73
48
44
50
31
33
26
37
18
16
19
14
13
14
17
11
13
8
8
6
6
6
5
4
13
3
1
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Denmark PPE-DE

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3

Bulgaria PPE-DE

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Lithuania PPE-DE

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Estonia PPE-DE

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3

Malta PPE-DE

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Cyprus PPE-DE

1
icon: PSE PSE
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Hungary PSE

Abstain (1)

3

Czechia PSE

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1

Finland PSE

2

Slovakia PSE

2

Lithuania PSE

For (1)

1

Estonia PSE

3

Luxembourg PSE

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1

Malta PSE

2

Greece PSE

2
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78
2

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1

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2

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2

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4

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Netherlands IND/DEM

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1
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United Kingdom NI

2

Italy NI

1

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1

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3
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France GUE/NGL

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RC B6-0205/2007 - Estonie - résolution #

2007/05/24 Outcome: +: 460, 0: 38, -: 31
DE PL GB FR RO ES IT BE NL HU PT CZ AT SK BG DK FI SE EL LV LT EE SI MT LU IE CY
Total
72
43
48
50
33
32
36
19
25
16
18
17
13
11
9
12
10
14
12
8
6
6
5
4
5
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4
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Denmark PPE-DE

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1
3

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2

Lithuania PPE-DE

1

Estonia PPE-DE

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1

Malta PPE-DE

2

Luxembourg PPE-DE

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Cyprus PPE-DE

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icon: PSE PSE
141

Hungary PSE

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3

Czechia PSE

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1

Slovakia PSE

2

Finland PSE

2

Greece PSE

2

Lithuania PSE

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1

Estonia PSE

3

Malta PSE

2

Luxembourg PSE

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1
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77
2

Austria ALDE

1

Sweden ALDE

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1

Latvia ALDE

1

Estonia ALDE

2

Slovenia ALDE

1

Cyprus ALDE

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1
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24

Denmark UEN

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1

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1
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Belgium ITS

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1
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3

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2

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1

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2

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1
icon: NI NI
7

United Kingdom NI

2

Italy NI

1

Czechia NI

1

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1
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    • date: 2007-09-05T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=13698&j=0&l=en title: SP(2007)3608/2 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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    • date: 2007-05-22T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20070522&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
    • date: 2007-05-24T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=13698&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
    • date: 2007-05-24T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2007-215 title: T6-0215/2007 summary: The European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on Estonia by 460 votes in favour to 31 against with 38 abstentions. It expresses its support for, and solidarity with, the democratically elected Estonian Government in its efforts to ensure order, stability and the rule of law for all residents of Estonia, and regarded attacks targeting one of the smallest EU Member States as a test case for the European Union's solidarity. To recall, in April 2007, demonstrators protesting against the Estonian Government's decision to relocate the Soviet "monument to the liberators of Tallinn" from the centre of the Estonian capital to the Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces a few kilometres away were responsible for two nights of violence, which started with demonstrators attacking the police and resulted in widespread vandalism in the centre of Tallinn. These attacks were carried out with the active organisation and cooperation of forces located outside Estonia. There were also hostile demonstrations in Moscow outside the Estonian Embassy and physical attacks on the Estonian and Swedish Ambassadors. In addition, systematic cyber attacks have been organised, mostly from outside Estonia, in an attempt to block official communication lines and Estonian administration websites. Those attacks have come from Russian administration IP addresses. Wide-scale restrictions on Estonian exports to Russia were introduced, with Russian companies suspending contracts with Estonian firms, Estonia's energy supplies being threatened and the Estonia-St. Petersburg train connection being suspended with effect from the end of June 2007. Parliament stated that Estonia, as an independent Member State of the EU and NATO, has the sovereign right to assess its recent tragic past, starting with the loss of independence resulting from the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 and ending only in 1991. It considered inadmissible the various attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Estonia by the Russian authorities, and was alarmed by the inadequate protection by the Russian authorities of the Estonian embassy in Moscow and by the physical attacks on the Estonian Ambassador by the "Nashi" demonstrators. Parliament condemned the attempts by Russia to exert economic pressure on Estonia as an instrument of foreign policy and called on the Russian Government to restore normal economic relations between the two states. The Russian authorities were reminded that the indiscriminate and openly hostile rhetoric used by the Russian authorities against Estonia is in sharp contrast to the principles of international behaviour and will affect EU-Russia relations generally. The Russian Government must engage in an open and unbiased dialogue with the eastern and central European democracies on the history of the 20th century, as well as on the crimes against humanity, including those of totalitarian communism, committed then. Parliament called on the Commission and all the Member States to assist in the analyses of the cyber attacks on Estonian websites and to present a study on how such attacks and threats might be addressed at EU level, and called on Russia to assist in these investigations to the full. Lastly, it welcomed the words of the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who emphasised that people who came to Estonia in Soviet times and now live in the Republic of Estonia, as well as their children and grandchildren, are all Estonian fellow countrymen. All Estonians have their own, very painful experience of life under three consecutive occupying powers in the last century, and there is a need to be able to understand the tragedies of others. He reminded all parties concerned that the Estonian domestic dialogue must be enhanced so as to bridge existing gaps between the different communities and to create new opportunities to integrate Russian-speaking countrymen in particular.
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