Representative
Senator
Socialist Party (SP)
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
06/03/2020 - Standing Committee Situation in the Turkey-Greece border: the international community must come together to find solutions, says Tiny Kox 29/01/2020 - Session PACE ratifies the credentials of the Russian Federation 24/01/2018 - Session PACE will pursue its monitoring of the honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina 24/01/2018 - Session Current affairs debate: 'The Turkish military intervention in Syria' 15/12/2017 - Monitoring Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Constitution and Election Law must be amended without delay
31/01/2020 | 12:19:31 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to start to compliment both rapporteurs Mr Stefan SCHENNACH and Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN on their reports on organ transplant tourism and combating trafficking in human tissues and cells. I indeed hope that the Assembly will be able to recommend today to the member states to sign, ratify, and implement relevant global and Council of Europe conventions and to support proposals made in the report to develop binding legal instruments to tackle these developme... 31/01/2020 | 10:28:29 Thank you very much, Mr President. Thank you very much, rapporteur Mr Frithjof SCHMIDT. There are, as he says, in this first paragraph of the resolution serious worries about the scale of information pollution in a digitally connected and increasingly polarised world. On the basis of these worries, the rapporteur has developed a report and a resolution that is based on the report to address these worries and to find some answers on how to tackle them. I think first and foremost we should underli... 29/01/2020 | 19:50:40 Thank you very much Mr President. And thank you very much colleagues. We have had, I think we all agree, a very in-depth debate on things that did happen, are happening, or might happen with regard to the Russian Federation, our member state, and with regard to other countries in the neighborhood of the Russian Federation. Many of the things that you mentioned, many of the worries that you mentioned, were already mentioned in resolutions that this assembly decided upon. I mention these resolutio... 29/01/2020 | 18:24:44 Thank you very much, Mr President. Dear Colleagues, This Monday the credentials of the Russian delegation were challenged on substantive grounds. In line with Article 8.3 of our Rules of Procedure, the Monitoring Committee was seized for a report on this challenge. The Monitoring Committee elected me as its rapporteur and I therefore now have the honour to present you a resolution adopted by the Monitoring Committee, as well as an explanatory memorandum on the matter. As always, the Secretariat ... 29/01/2020 | 16:45:54 Yes, sorry to say Mr President, but let me first say that I'm disappointed that if this is the position of the European Conservatives, I'm quite shocked because also the European Conservatives were involved in this process. I never heard that this was the position but Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO speaks to us on behalf of the group. I hope that we get some clarification on that because this is the uniqueness of the proposal now made by our colleague, Mr Frank SCHWABE. This is a process in which we fin...
28/01/2020 | Doc. 15050 | Report Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 09/04/2019 | Doc. 14863 | Report Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future 08/01/2018 | Doc. 14465 | Report The honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina 27/09/2017 | Doc. 14406 | Report Defending the acquis of the Council of Europe: preserving 65 years of successful intergovernmental co-operation 26/01/2016 | Doc. 13958 | Report Combating international terrorism while protecting Council of Europe standards and values
04/02/2020 | Doc. 15073 | Motion for a resolution The Parliamentary Assembly’s role in developing a systematic approach to cope with global epidemic outbreaks 03/02/2020 | Doc. 15068 | Motion for a resolution Artificial intelligence and climate change 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15061 | Written declaration Defend the rights of Julian Assange and the freedom of the press 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15060 | Written declaration Protecting the right to political representation in Catalonia 25/10/2019 | Doc. 15003 | Written declaration German singer Saide Inac and her daughter must be immediately released from Turkish prisons
31/01/2020 | Doc. 15028, vote on the draft text for resolution Democracy hacked? How to respond? 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15029, vote on the draft text for resolution Organ transplant tourism 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15022, vote on the draft text for recommendation Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for recommendation Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan