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MEPs whose initial is “H” · 16 MEPs

Hadja Lahbib

• 3,000 people were affected by the closure of Audi Belgium
• The European Union has provided EUR 100 million for humanitarian aid.
• The EU has mobilised EUR 15 million in humanitarian assistance for the WHO and frontline humanitarian partners respondin
• For 2021 to 2027, around EUR 22 billion from the European Regional Development Fund were allocated to inclusive growth
• In some EU member states, 80% of firefighters are volunteers.
• More than 70% of people living in extreme poverty today live in fragile countries or contexts
• Through rescEU and the European Civil Protection Pool, the EU has 22 firefighting aircraft, 5 helicopters and 22 certifi
• Team Europe mobilised more than EUR 811,000,000 for this year
• The European Commission has invested EUR 39.3 million in CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, to s
• The EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre coordinated the deployment of 40 aerial means and 18 ground teams, and pre
• Nearly 800 firefighters from 13 countries are pre-positioned in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
• 473 political prisoners remain in Venezuela today.
• Over 750 Venezuelan political prisoners have been released since January.
• Risk of gender-based violence in Sudan increased by 350% since the conflict began
• The EU has transported more than 590 tonnes of essential supplies to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo through ei
• The European Commission's rescEU capacities and the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) have existed since 200
• In a number of Member States, violence is still mentioned as a condition for the recognition of rape.
• 22 firefighting aircraft, 5 helicopters and 22 certified ground firefighting teams are available across ten countries th
• The European Commission launched a EUR 16 million call for tenders to establish an investigational vaccine reserve for f
• Nearly 20,000,000 people in Sudan face acute food insecurity
• Six EU Member States and Norway are providing assistance through the EU civil protection mechanism.
• France reported more than 2,000 excess deaths in the last week of June 2026, according to preliminary estimates.
• The European Commission invested almost EUR 3 million in Nepal for disaster preparedness before the crisis struck.
• Nearly 1 in 5 women in the EU have experienced sexual violence including rape and other unwanted sexual acts.
• Over 1.45 million people are internally displaced in Haiti.
• Only 186 political prisoners, representing about 25%, were released under the amnesty law.
• The EU is providing EUR 493 million in immediate and long-term support for humanitarian aid, vaccines, treatments and he
• 777 firefighters from 14 countries were prepositioned in six countries in summer 2026 under the EU civil protection mech
• EU humanitarian air bridges have delivered over 150 metric tonnes of aid to Nepal.
• The European Union has made available close to EUR 1,000,000,000 for Sudan and neighbouring countries since 2023
• Between 90% and 96% of wildfires are of human origin, caused by human activity.
• The EU allocated EUR 10 million for vulnerable households affected by displacement through Lebanon's Shock-Responsive Sa
• More than 33,000,000 people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance
• The EU contributes EUR 10 million to build five forward operating bases to support the operations of the Gang Suppressio
• The European Union had committed almost EUR 3 million to disaster preparedness in Nepal at the beginning of 2026.
• The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership is supporting the development of monoclonal antibodies
• The UN reports that 5,500 people were killed in Haiti last year.
• The EU's rescue fleet was available this summer with 18 aeroplanes and 5 helicopters.
• The EU is supporting Haiti with more than EUR 380 million in ongoing development and humanitarian programmes.
• So far in 2026, all requests for assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism have been answered: ten times in E
• The EU signed a EUR 45 million direct grant with Lebanon's Ministry of Social Affairs for cash assistance.
• The EU Civil Protection Mechanism received 19 requests for assistance in 2025, the largest number ever recorded.
• The EU is providing more than EUR 1 million for the current Ebola preparedness and response effort.
• 12,000,000 people in Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence
• The European Union deployed EUR 100 million in immediate humanitarian aid to Lebanon
• At least 3,500 fatalities are attributed to the June 2026 heatwave.
• The European Union mobilised EUR 2.5 million in emergency humanitarian assistance for Nepal.
• The EU's rescEU reserve fleet currently consists of 18 firefighting aircraft and 5 helicopters.
• More than 1 million hectares burned across the EU in 2025, the highest figure ever recorded.
• Today, 300 million people's lives depend on humanitarian aid.
• In 2026, almost 700,000 hectares have already burned in the EU, with 16 member states recording burned areas above their
• The EU currently applies individual sanctions against 69 individuals responsible for undermining democracy, the rule of
• The EU is providing EUR 16.5 million to rapidly deploy diagnostics and strengthen field testing capacities for the Ebola
• Sudan is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world
• EU cohesion policy provides €14.6 billion for disaster risk management and climate adaptation.
• Up to 96% of wildfire ignitions in the EU are caused by human activity, far exceeding natural causes.
• Roma now have better access to jobs, health care and decent living conditions than in 2016
• The EU finalised a EUR 25 million programme to support conflict-affected areas in Lebanon.
• The European Commission has pledged EUR 25 million to the international fund for responding to loss and damage.
• Nearly 14,000,000 people are uprooted from their homes in Sudan
• Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet.
• Nine rescue aeroplanes were deployed in response to wildfires in Portugal and France (three to Portugal, six to France).
• Climate-related agricultural losses in the EU are estimated at around €28.3 billion per year.
• The EU Civil Protection Mechanism was activated twice in late April and early May 2026.
• Nearly EUR 600,000,000 of EU funding has gone to Sudan itself

Hana Jalloul Muro

• Iran has launched attacks against more than a dozen countries
• More than 3,000 Iranians were killed in the conflict in the Middle East.
• Since July 2026, Houthis have displaced 184,000 people in Yemen.
• Approximately one million Lebanese people have been displaced from their homes due to the conflict.
• More than 45,000 European companies, many of them SMEs, export to Mexico.
• 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon
• Since July 2026, Houthis have killed 250 innocent civilians in Yemen.

Hanna Gedin

• The Swedish government has introduced the most restrictive migration laws in Europe
• In Sweden, an average of 49 people died each year from work-related accidents over the last decade.
• The Swedish police have signed multi-million contracts with the technology company Palantir.
• Nearly 4 million people are internally displaced within Ukraine.
• The very richest in Sweden have received tax cuts of over 5000 Swedish kronor per month
• Packaging waste in the EU averaged 173 kg per person in 2023.
• In Sweden, a director earns 103 times more than a childcare worker or cleaner
• In a construction lift accident in Sundbyberg, Sweden, 5 workers died and there were 119 companies on the construction s
• 5 million mothers and children are starving in Afghanistan.

Hannah Neumann

• In Taiz, Yemen, hundreds of thousands of people remain cut off from food and medicine.
• EU services concluded in 2025 that the current Israeli Government is in breach of its human rights obligations under the
• More than 60% of the Gaza Strip is under Israeli military control.
• More than 2 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished.
• The EU has listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
• The Knesset has passed a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinians only.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh was abducted by the Iranian regime 25 days ago and is held in an unknown location
• In 2020, in Doha, Donald Trump reached a deal with the Taliban.
• More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the nine months since a ceasefire was declared.

Hannes Heide

• More than 18 million people have participated in Erasmus+ since the programme began.
• There are now more than one million 'Erasmus+ babies' born to couples who met on the programme.
• In Europe, social origin and educational success still correlate far too closely.
• The European Media Freedom Act has been binding since August 2025.
• The music market has recently increased by almost 10%
• In June, armed militiamen massacred at least 22 innocent people in the Christian community of Kawel village in Nigeria's
• 97% of Jewish citizens report experiences with antisemitism.
• Almost 100% of Erasmus+ participants say they have benefited from their mobility experience.
• In 2024, more than 20 million suspicion reports of child abuse online were registered.
• According to UNESCO, 250 million children and adolescents worldwide do not attend school.
• The cultural and creative sector has 8 million jobs and a turnover of 200 billion euros

Hans Neuhoff

• Hungary, Slovakia, France and Belgium are among the largest buyers of Russian energy.
• In Ukraine, four times as many people die as are born.
• The European Union has adopted 21 sanctions packages against Russia.
• Ukraine's population has fallen from 52 million in 1991 to at most 25 million today.
• 66% of Ukrainians want a swift end to the war through negotiations.
• The grant of 90 billion euros to Ukraine, which is now up for vote
• Ukraine's population has shrunk from 52 million to 22 million.

Harald Vilimsky

• The attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 killed more than 1,200 people, with civilians used as human shields.
• Four days ago in March, Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Helmut Brandstätter

• Over 1,600 people have been hanged in Iran as part of the regime's use of the death penalty.
• Austria had a very serious wine scandal exactly 40 years ago.
• 600,000 entries from Lithuania's population register were affected by a data breach.
• The Austrian Federal Army uses LibreOffice and no longer uses Microsoft software.
• Consumers in Austria pay more for the same products than consumers in Germany.
• Russia has deported and forcibly transferred 20,000 Ukrainian children.

Heléne Fritzon

• The amount of packaging has increased and is continuing to increase in Europe.
• European countries currently spend more money buying Russian gas than they provide in aid to Ukraine.
• Only about 40% of electronic waste is recycled.
• In Sweden, almost 9 out of 10 cans and PET bottles are collected through the deposit system and can be turned into new p
• Nearly half of the strategic and critical raw materials contained in small appliances are lost during collection.
• One third of all women in Europe are outside the labour market.
• Today the European Union spends more money on oil and gas purchases than it provides in support to Ukraine.
• EU law requires at least two months of non-transferable parental leave.
• The recent summer brought heat records, drought and fires to Europe, and floods to other parts of the world.
• Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported from their homes.

Henna Virkkunen

• The AI Act requires providers of the most advanced AI models to notify the European Commission and to assess and mitigat
• The European Commission presented the Cybersecurity Act proposal in January 2025.
• The NIS 2 Directive requires critical infrastructure operators to take state-of-the-art measures against all cybersecuri
• In December, the European Commission took the first non-compliance decision under the DSA, finding X in breach of three
• The EU is investing in 19 AI factories together with Member States.
• The EU has 30% more AI engineers per capita than the USA.
• The Cyber Resilience Act mandates manufacturers of hardware and software to test products for vulnerabilities before mar
• Two leading US AI companies launched cybersecurity-capable frontier models in the weeks prior to 19 May 2026.
• AI adoption among European businesses increased by 50% last year.

Herbert Dorfmann

• 30% of the agricultural land in the European Union is permanent grassland.
• Two thirds of imported fertilizer in Europe are nitrogen fertilizers.

Hermann Tertsch

• The European Council formally designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization in February 2
• Cuba's regime holds more than 1,300 political prisoners, among them Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí.
• Since 2016, the EU has spent over 124 million euros on what are described as humanitarian operations in territory direct
• The European Union has maintained a Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba for a decade.
• The trade agreement presented by Von der Leyen involves tariffs of 15% versus 0%, which would harm Spain's primary secto
• The Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement has provided millions of euros of European taxpayer money to Cuba.
• During Obama's mandate, ICE caused up to 57 deaths in its work capturing violent illegal immigrants.

Hilde Vautmans

• For the first time, the United Nations listed Israeli forces among the parties suspected of conflict-related sexual viol
• He was sentenced on November 4 last year to ten years of forced labor
• In Antwerp, the number of arrested minors last year was twice that of the previous year.
• More than 2,700 Palestinian children have been killed.
• UNRWA is banned by the Israeli Government.
• The number of reports dropped by 58%, not because the abuse stopped, but because it could not be detected
• The UN recorded the highest number of grave violations against children ever verified.
• Europe is dependent on the US and China for 60% of drone components.
• Belgian-Portuguese citizen Joseph Figueira Martin was released two weeks ago
• Saturday 25 April marked 10 years since Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced and arrested in Iran
• Ukraine produces 5 million drones per year.
• Ahmadreza Djalali is currently the longest-standing EU citizen held hostage by the Iranian authorities
• Voka Limburg surveyed 100 companies and 85% gave a failing grade to European industrial policy

Hildegard Bentele

• The European bioeconomy already accounts for more than 17 million jobs and a value added of €2.7 trillion.
• Only ten member states in the Council want to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization
• Mohammad Amin Biglari (19 years old) and six other individuals (Shahin Vahedparast Kolor, Shahab Zohdi, Abolfazl Salehi
• UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was adopted in 2006
• The 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi was executed in Iran last week.
• On 18 and 19 March 2026, the 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi and two other individuals were executed in Iran follow

Hristo Petrov

• Social workers in Bulgaria earn 600 euros per month
• Bulgaria has only 19 child psychiatrists in total

Hélder Sousa Silva

• Today, 80% of small and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union face difficulties finding workers with the right
• The elections took place on November 30, 2025