Representative
Senator
Open VLD
Sénat
BE - 1009 - Brussels
Belgium
Working language: English
17/06/2021 - President PACE President, addressing new UN global network for parliamentarians, recalls need to uphold human rights when combating terrorism 11/06/2021 - President PACE President tells ministers: ‘We need to regulate AI before AI regulates us’ 04/06/2021 - President PACE President on World Environment Day: now is the time for a right to a healthy environment 02/06/2021 - President PACE President, ending Budapest visit, welcomes opportunities presented by the Hungarian Council of Europe Presidency 19/05/2021 - President “Vaccination strategies are only lawful if proportionate”, President says
24/06/2021 | 18:30:26 Thank you, Mister Vice-President, Mister MEREZHKO. It is a habit that then I return briefly to the Assembly to close the sitting. I would wish to thank all of you still present, including obviously the Vice-President for doing a fine job and also for all the people who are still with us, massively as usual, Secretary General. Anyway, we just concluded, I think, a quite successful week. To be quite honest we had a lot of high-level people addressing the Assembly, and I would just like to refer... 24/06/2021 | 17:26:04 Thank you, Madam Chair. So now we come to the draft resolution. Normally, Mister Momodou Malcolm JALLOW, you should get nervous now. You never know what a vote is going to do in a hemicycle. Just teasing a little bit, but I think I'm allowed to do so. Dear colleagues, draft resolution. The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination has presented a draft resolution which is Document 15306 to which three amendments have been tabled. I understand that the Chairperson of the Committee on... 24/06/2021 | 17:10:26 Good afternoon all of you. Mister Momodou Malcolm JALLOW, I heard all these good things about you but that's not new. Allow me now to welcome Ms E. Tendayi ACHIUME, I hope I said that name right, who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. I would really like to welcome you, Madam E. Tendayi ACHIUME. Did I say that right? No. Not really. How is it? Okay, okay. I'll just continue. Special Rapporteur... 24/06/2021 | 12:32:14 Before suspending our meeting, my dear colleagues, I am going to take advantage of the presence in our hemicycle of Mr Alfred SIXTO, to my left, for whom we have prepared a little tribute. Here we are, we have done something for you. Mr Alfred SIXTO is our session manager. I am told that you are leaving the Assembly for a retirement, as we usually say, under well-deserved circumstances. I'm a little sorry because, well, I'm so used to you ... You haven't told me anything, because, otherwise... 24/06/2021 | 09:12:27 Thank you, Mister rapporteur. I would now wish to welcome the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Mr António VITORINO. We really look forward to your contributions, Mister VITORINO. I would like to stress the importance of the positive contribution of diaspora communities to the European society, by enriching host country's cultural diversity, building dynamic and constructive relations with their countries of origin and contributing to the integration of...
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