Representative
Senator
Open VLD
Sénat
BE - 1009 - Brussels
Belgium
Working language: English
25/01/2021 - Session Rik Daems, re-elected President, invites members to see PACE as vehicle for upholding shared values 22/01/2021 - President The President presents the 2020 progress report and thematic priorities for 2021 07/01/2021 - President President reacts to ‘assault on democracy’ at the US Capitol: 'who does not speak up, consents' 21/12/2020 - President An end-of-year message from Rik Daems: stay healthy, stay safe, and let’s work together to tackle the challenges of ‘21 14/12/2020 - President Heads of UN and PACE: building a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment must become ‘a binding principle’
28/01/2021 | 12:58:57 Thank you, Madam Chair. Hereby the debate is closed. The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination has presented a draft resolution [Doc. 15199] to which no amendments have been tabled, as the chair has informed us. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15199 [as amended]. Members present in the Chamber should use the hemicycle voting system. Members participating remotely should vote using the remote voting system. The vote is open. Please vote. The vote is... 28/01/2021 | 10:10:14 Thank you, Mister Stefan SCHENNACH. We now come to the consideration of the amendments. You have Document 15216, which is the draft resolution. It is presented with the amendments in the sideline, in the sidebar. The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has presented a draft resolution to which now 11 amendments have been tabled. The amendments will be taken in the order in which they appear in the... 28/01/2021 | 09:02:19 Good morning, everyone. May I ask everyone to take his or her respective seat? If you wish to engage in discussions amongst members, as I have said before, I would invite you to take it outside of the hemicycle. The first item of business this morning is a debate on the report from the Monitoring Committee regarding the challenge to credentials on substantive grounds under Rule 8. I remind you that the members whose credentials are challenged may sit provisionally with the same rights as... 27/01/2021 | 10:04:03 Good morning, dear colleagues. May I ask that those present in the room would please be seated? Thank you, please be seated or if you have a discussion, which we can understand, please take it outside. If not, be seated. The sitting is open. The item of business this morning is a debate on the report titled "Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal, and practical considerations". This is the document 15212 presented by Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and... 26/01/2021 | 19:02:58 Thank you very much Mr KISLYAK for the confirmation that you withdraw Amendment 1 as well as Amendment 2. Does anybody want, on the contrary, to keep the amendment on the table? If so, if anyone wishes to take the floor on Amendment 1 or Amendment 2? No? Okay. Therefore, dear colleagues, before we proceed to vote on the draft resolution I inform you that a majority of two thirds is required for it to be adopted, and not a simple majority. This is because Article 29 of the Statute of 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
15/10/2019 | Doc. 14918 | Written declaration Investigating and preventing corruption at the Council of Europe 04/10/2019 | Doc. 14992 | Motion for a resolution The Parliamentary Assembly must contribute to restoring peace in Ukraine 04/07/2019 | Doc. 14944 | Motion for a resolution Acting for the health of all through healthy and sustainable food and agriculture 27/06/2019 | Doc. 14929 | Motion for a resolution Ensuring accountability for the downing of flight MH 17 24/06/2019 | Doc. 14918 | Written declaration Investigating and preventing corruption at the Council of Europe
03/10/2019 | Doc. 14971, vote on the draft text for resolution Saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea: the need for an urgent response 27/06/2019 | Doc. 14902, vote on the draft text for resolution Shedding light on the murder of Boris Nemtsov 26/06/2019 | Doc. 14922, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 25/06/2019 | Doc. 14908, vote on the draft text for resolution The Istanbul Convention on violence against women: achievements and challenges 25/06/2019 | Doc. 14907, vote on the draft text for resolution Towards an ambitious Council of Europe agenda for gender equality