25/04/2023 | 15:54:06 Thank you very much. Fiona, I allowed you some minutes more because you were our rapporteur on our wishes with regards to the Summit and your report was adopted unanimously. I thought that the Parliamentary Assembly would excuse me for giving you a bit more time. Now, I have the pleasure, before we start with the rest of the list of the speakers, I have the pleasure to give the floor to the president of the European Court of Human Rights, Judge Síofra O'LEARY. Madam President, Thank you for... 25/04/2023 | 15:39:44 That could raise enough questions, Madam Minister. Now we come to the end of our questions. There was a far longer list, but I think you took your time to explain your priorities and to answer the questions from our side. Thank you very much for your participation in today's session. I wish you well. All the best in the preparation of the summit. As you said, we will be there, you will be there in the Standing Committee the day before the summit. Ms Despina CHATZIVASSILIOU-TSOVILIS wrote... 25/04/2023 | 14:52:32 Colleagues, we now come to the communication from the Committee of Ministers to the Assembly presented by Ms Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð GYLFADÓTTIR, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and Chair of the Committee of Ministers. This will be followed by questions to Ms Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð GYLFADÓTTIR. It is my pleasure, Madam Minister, to welcome you here in our hemicycle, which happens to be also in the building of the European Parliament, but this is the hemicycle of the Council of... 25/04/2023 | 14:37:11 The sitting is open. Dear colleagues, This afternoon the Agenda calls for the election of one judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Romania. The list of candidates and biographical notices and the opinion of the Committee on the Election of Judges are to be found in Documents 15733 and 15745 and Addendum 2. You have already yesterday tested with the voting system in this hemicycle but for this vote to elect a judge the ballot is slightly different from the test vote we... 24/04/2023 | 17:41:39 Thank you very much, Madam Commissioner. I now have to conclude the questions to you. There were many more. But I think you answered the questions posed to you in depth. I want to thank you once more for answering our questions and for updating our Parliamentary Assembly. We are looking forward to cooperating with you in the coming time. Thank you very much, Madam Commissioner. The Parliamentary Assembly will hold its next public sitting tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m., with the agenda that... 24/04/2023 | 17:09:29 Thank you very much, Madam Commissioner, for your in-depth presentation of the work that you are doing as elected by us, and to be our watchdog with regard to the respect of human rights. It is not a very nice picture that you have drawn of what is happening in Europe, but it is necessary that we are aware. It is good to have heard, at the end of your intervention, you say that there are also signs of hope. Now, you agreed to answer questions from our members. First, you will get five... 24/04/2023 | 16:40:11 Thank you very much Madam Secretary General. Your advice to be more clever than we have been - that's a challenging one, but we will do our best. May I thank you very much for answering the questions of our colleagues today. May I once again praise you for the fact that you had the courage together with our Parliamentary Assembly to say yes, we will go for a summit of heads of state and government, it will take place. I'm happy that you gave us the hope that the deliverables will be... 24/04/2023 | 16:05:35 Thank you very much Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER. I now close the debate. The Bureau has proposed references to committees for ratification by the Assembly. Is there any objection to the proposed references to committees? I don't see any, so the references are approved. Then I go to page 25... I propose now that the other decisions in the progress report be ratified. Any objections to that? If that is not the case, then I go further on my agenda. That means that we have now arrived at the question... 24/04/2023 | 15:30:02 Merci à vous [Thank you in French], Madam Petra STIENEN, for your contribution to this Parliamentary Assembly and the work of this Assembly. People come and go. It's the decision sometimes of the voters, sometimes of those who have been elected, and sometimes of those who have said that they would not want to be reelected this time. Thank you very much for all of your great contributions, Madam Petra STIENEN. You have, indeed, got a lot of friends here in all political groups. The next... 24/04/2023 | 15:13:11 Thank you Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER. I said you have 3 minutes at the end of the debate to reply. I can take care that you sleep well, Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER, we are in the building of the European Parliament but this is now the hemicycle of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. So you did not make it to the European Parliament, you are still in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, if that is helping you to sleep well, then I am happy to tell you that. Before giving the...