22/06/2021 | 09:04:30 Good morning, everybody. The sitting is open. This morning the Agenda calls for the election of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Croatia. The list of candidates and biographical notices are to be found in Documents 15295 and 15318 Addendum 2. These elections will take place by individual electronic secret ballot voting between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. today. Each political group has appointed a teller according to the rules. The tellers are: EPP : Ms Danuta... 21/06/2021 | 17:36:57 Thank you, Mister President. Mister Minister, we wish you all success in the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, let me ask one question relating to your approach to the freedom of science, research and education. We have seen two very diverging policies by your government, on the one hand, forcing Central European University out of your country by a law that has been described by the Venice Commission as highly problematic. On the other hand, you are inviting in a state-run Chinese... 21/06/2021 | 16:08:51 Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, Allow me to take this opportunity, dear Mister Rik DAEMS, to say thank you again very much for visiting my constituency, my home, last week. It was a great honour to have the President of the Parliamentary Assembly with us. You received and brought back to Strasbourg the bell that had been kept there for 70 years, which Mr Paul-Henri SPAAK left there as a gift on the occasion of the opening of the Europa-Haus in Marienberg in 1951. It was, I think, a... 22/04/2021 | 13:04:29 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear President, dear colleagues, At our plenary session in January, I stated very clearly that all dimensions of the Navalny case – his poisoning, his arrest and the way in which protests have been dealt with – have an impact on us within the Council of Europe in particular and represent a central challenge for us. In this forum, we have repeatedly expressed our full support for the mandate of our colleague Jacques Maire as rapporteur. And I... 22/04/2021 | 11:49:06 Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, As a de facto founding member of the Council of Europe, Turkey has committed itself to upholding the highest standards of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. This entails fundamental obligations, in particular to comply with and implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. This goes to the core of the Council of Europe, it was also a priority of the German Presidency, is a priority of the German Presidency. Mr Michael ROTH has... 21/04/2021 | 13:10:06 Thank you. I shall now put the amendment to the vote on both respective voting systems. The vote is now open. Thank you. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. 95 in favor, 20 against, 14 abstentions. Amendment 3 is agreed to. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15256, as amended. Again, use your respective voting systems. The vote on both systems is now open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. 102 in favor, 23... 21/04/2021 | 13:02:02 Thank you. I have been informed that Ms Alexandra LOUIS wishes to propose an oral sub-amendment, as follows: In amendment 1, replace the words “Council of Europe permanent group or similar institution on the situation in Belarus, primarily on the protection of human rights" with the following words: “an ad-hoc working group within the Council of Europe tasked with monitoring the human rights situation in Belarus and contributing to the aforementioned Belarus Accountability Platform.” In my... 21/04/2021 | 12:55:01 Thank you. I shall now put the amendment to the vote. Again members in the Chamber please use the hemicycle voting system. Members remotely should use the remote system. The vote is now open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. 100 in favour, 13 against, 12 abstentions. The amendment is agreed to. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15253 as amended. Members present in the Chamber please use the voting system here. Members remote... 21/04/2021 | 12:45:47 The Committee is in favour. I shall now put the amendment to the vote. Members present in the Chamber should use the hemicycle voting system. Members participating remotely should use the remote voting system. The vote in the hemicycle and via remote voting is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. 77 in favour, 13 against, 16 abstentions. The amendment is agreed. I apologise to Lord David BLENCATHRA who apparently wanted to speak against this amendment, but his... 21/04/2021 | 12:43:38 Thank you Mr Chairman. I declare the debate closed. We come to the consideration of amendments. The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy has presented a draft resolution in Document 15253, to which three amendments have been tabled in the draft recommendation to which no amendments have been tabled. The amendments will be taken in the order in which they appear in the compendium. I remind you that speeches on amendments are limited to one minute. We will start with the consideration...