Substitute
Deputy
SPÖ
Parlament
AT - 1017 - Wien
Austria
Working language: English
10/02/2025 - Election observation PACE delegation welcomes inclusive and peaceful elections in Kosovo* 31/01/2025 - Session PACE calls for action to combat age-based discrimination against older persons 22/01/2025 - Election observation In Kosovo*, a PACE delegation calls on all parties to work for inclusive elections despite growing polarisation 13/01/2025 - Election observation PACE delegation makes pre-electoral visit to Kosovo* 29/11/2024 - Election observation Republic of Moldova: democratic and well-managed elections, despite significant external interference and attempts to corrupt the electoral process
10/04/2025 | 12:21:54 Thank you very much, Mister President, and thank you, Titus CORLĂŢEAN, for this really important report. It is clear that we speak about one legal space, when it comes to the member states of the European Union (EU) within the Council of Europe, which is quite harmonised. Let me also focus on the implications of the participation of the European Union at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This will help unfold the human rights protection umbrella over all people living in European... 10/04/2025 | 10:37:59 Thank you very much. Indeed our environment needs very robust protection, and the criminal law is absolutely an appropriate measure. It's very common on a national level, but there are still voids on an international level, so we really should close them. I would like to focus on the Rome Statute, which is the basis of international criminal law. And crimes against the environment are often linked with other offences the International Criminal Court is dealing with anyway. So just to mention... 09/04/2025 | 19:31:54 "No. International courts are not made to intervene in sovereign states. International courts are made to restore justice in sovereign states, just to make clear what they are made for." [in English]. Let me come to the report and to the core. The European Court of Human Rights is the core or is one of the very, very important cores of the Council of Europe. The core is only ever as hard as the implementation of the judgments of this Court work well. In the Committee for the Election of... 09/04/2025 | 16:37:17 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman. I must confess. When I look at Türkiye at the moment, I am above all desperate, really desperate, because it is clear that the judiciary is being misused for political purposes in order to clear away politically undesirable opponents. I am desperate because the results of democratic elections are being trampled on again and again, because mayors are being replaced by government commissioners. I am desperate, because for years, for many years, Türkiye has... 09/04/2025 | 10:27:07 Yeah, thank you very much. We know that many countries start to fight corruption in politics when there is a specific case that becomes public. And of course that's a good reason, and better then, than never. But I think that we are all united in the idea that a system to assist MPs to respect ethical standards from scratch is much better than one that only relies on responding to breaches of standards. It's obvious that throughout Europe we have very diverse standards, from clear settled...
28/01/2025 | Doc. 16107 | Committee Opinion Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia 31/05/2024 | Doc. 15993 | Report Protecting women human rights defenders in Europe 10/10/2023 | Doc. 15841 | Report Call for the immediate release of Osman Kavala 05/01/2023 | Doc. 15677 | Report Conflict-related sexual violence 23/05/2022 | Doc. 15539 | Report Preventing and combating antisemitism in Europe
23/04/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16157 | Motion for a resolution Follow-up to the 4th round of GRECO recommendations relating to parliamentarians 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16154 | Written declaration Gender mainstreaming in the central Asian region 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16155 | Written declaration Upholding the rights to protest: defending the Budapest Pride march 02/04/2025 | Doc. 16141 | Written declaration Political persecution of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the erosion of democracy in Türkiye
10/04/2025 | Doc. 16150, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16153, vote on the draft text for resolution The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) “Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia” 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16126, vote on the draft text for resolution Legal aspects of the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16128, vote on the draft text for resolution Interconnections between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16129, vote on the draft text for recommendation Strengthening relations between the Council of Europe and Latin America