Substitute
Senator
Open VLD
Sénat
BE - 1009 - Brussels
Belgium
Working language: English
26/04/2023 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development #RoadToReykjavik: towards an ambitious summit for protecting the environment 17/03/2023 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Preventing, anticipating and dealing with natural disasters 27/01/2022 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development PACE launches a new network of parliamentarians to press for a healthy environment 18/01/2022 - President PACE and EBRD Presidents agree new priority areas for working together 31/12/2021 - President PACE President Rik Daems calls 2022 the year when parliaments work together to turn the tide on the rise of authoritarianism
21/06/2023 | 16:08:55 The first thing I would like to say is basically, and Mr George KATROUGALOS has said it too, we are in the hemicycle of the European Parliament, our budget is 1% of the budget of the European Parliament. To put it in an American way, that is one cent on the dollar. That is what we mean in terms of human rights, the rule of law and democracy. Think about it! One cent on the dollar. So this is a message to the Committee of Ministers and, of course, to those who need to negotiate it, do you not... 24/01/2023 | 19:11:36 Hi, Fiona. Great job! Thank you for including the environmental issue into the report, because it is crucial to millions and millions and millions of young people who are looking at the political world and asking themselves why the hell don't you do something about it. I think that we can now. I would like to start by something that I heard at the beginning of the debate, the very first speaker, Mister President, was John HOWELL. He said "why would the UK PM come to the Summit?". I'll tell... 23/01/2023 | 16:29:42 Thank you, Madam Chair. Our group has had a profound discussion regarding the prosecution of Daesh foreign fighters from Syria. Our group supported the establishment of a special international tribunal or hybrid tribunal with jurisdiction over international crimes committed by Daesh foreign fighters. Now the report insists that a trial at home is essential because prosecution in Iraq is currently not an adequate and human-rights-compliant solution and there is a risk of further radicalisation... 23/01/2023 | 16:02:21 Thank you, Chair. I am not speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I am speaking on behalf of the Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment, which was established in January last year on the basis of the resolutions and recommendations that we passed unanimously in 2021, where we asked to establish a protocol on the Convention of Human Rights and even also to have some legally binding instruments as others in the Social Charter. What I am doing now is I... 24/01/2022 | 16:24:08 Thank you, Madam President. Thanks to all the colleagues who intervened. On behalf, obviously, in joining me on congratulating the new President and on commending me, that was not necessary, but it always feels nice, I have to admit. Two elements upfront: gender equality, environment and human rights. It is clear that this needs to be on the agenda. I thank all of you for flagging that again, but then you should work on it. It is not enough to say it. It has to be done. So I, as one, in the...
08/01/2020 | Doc. 15027 | Report Setting minimum standards for electoral systems in order to offer the basis for free and fair elections 11/02/2019 | Doc. 14827 | Report Promoting democracy by developing market economy: does the EBRD model work? 04/06/2010 | Doc. 12278 | Report Extra-institutional actors in the democratic system 11/01/2010 | Doc. 12107 | Report Thresholds and other features of electoral systems which have an impact on representativity of parliaments in Council of Europe member states
11/05/2023 | Doc. 15770 | Motion for a resolution Establishment of an Order of the European solidarities 13/03/2023 | Doc. 15727 | Motion for a resolution Strengthening the protection of biodiversity in Europe through sustainable and fair financing of the Bern Convention 30/01/2023 | Doc. 15699 | Motion for a resolution Urgent call on transferring Mikheil Saakashvili, the third President of Georgia for treatment abroad 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15580 | Motion for a resolution Healthy and sustainable food 23/06/2022 | Doc. 15569 | Motion for a resolution The Parliamentary Assembly should support Kazakhstan to continue its democratic reforms
21/06/2023 | Doc. 15780, vote on the draft text for opinion Budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the period 2024-2027 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15781, vote on the draft text for resolution Expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the biennium 2024-2025 24/01/2023 | Doc. 15681, vote on the draft text for recommendation The Reykjavik Summit of the Council of Europe: United around values in the face of extraordinary challenges 23/01/2023 | Doc. 15591, vote on the draft text for resolution Addressing the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families returning from Syria and other countries to the member States of the Council of Europe 23/01/2023 | Doc. 15591, vote on the draft text for recommendation Addressing the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families returning from Syria and other countries to the member States of the Council of Europe