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Recommendation to the Vice President/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 2018/2117(INI) - 29/11/2018 - Text adopted by Parliament, single reading The European Parliament adopted by421 votes to 97, with 111 abstentions, a resolution on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representati. [...] In the light of the recommendation concerning the status of higher education teaching personnel adopted in 1997 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Lima Declaration on Academic Freedom and Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions, Parliament considered that democracy cannot exist without academic freedom, the definitio. [...] The academic community and educational institutions are increasingly vulnerable to interference, pressure or repression from states, the business sector or other non-state actors. [...] Academic freedom requires constant and vigilant protection from undue pressure from the State or commercial interests. [...] Accordingly, Parliament made the following recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: explicitly recognise the importance of academic freedom in public statements and policies relating to the EUs external action, including recognition of the principles that ideas are not crimes.