22/04/2026 | 19:15:25 Dear friends, I remember the discussion. The discussion was 12 years ago, Andreas GROSS and other friends and I were supporting the Magnitsky resolution, and that was a fight like in the times of Napoleon. It was our water law fight. And when the Russia delegation put lies on our side, saying "that is not true", and we say "that it's true" and supported a Browder's investigation. MAGNITSKY is a Russian guy, just like Boris NEMTSOV, just like NAVALNY. Actually, NAVALNY was killed and poisoned... 22/04/2026 | 17:06:32 Thank you. Madam Speaker and dear friends, My mother spent four years in a Nazi camp. After she survived the terrible Stutthof concentration camp, and my grandfather Dachau, I never heard her calling for hatred. Hatred and revenge. We built this... It was built at this Council of Europe: the neglect to revenge means capital punishment. That's our core values. That's why today I will vote in favour of this resolution. I would like to thank the rapporteur. Bearing that in mind, we should have a... 29/01/2026 | 10:50:17 Dear colleagues, I would also like to address my words to Mrs Petra BAYR and say that I am very happy that you are now the President because you have dedicated your whole life to human rights. In my view, all the conventions of the Council of Europe also apply to Greenland. Greenland is under our patronage and, above all, what we have achieved in the last 80 years, 75 years I believe, and therefore we must stand by the side of our fellow member, Greenland. I am very glad that the Royal Family... 27/01/2026 | 12:50:14 Thank you. Today we are marking the incredibly dark page, the darkest page in the history of European nations. One of the Yiddish-speaking nations disappeared. Every child was hunted by Nazis and their collaborators in every village. And of course today we are making a broader remembrance. I think the State of Israel was established as an answer, as an echo of the Second World War. And I come from a Holocaust-surviving family. My mother spent four years in the Stutthof Nazi camp and my... 26/01/2026 | 13:42:50 Dear colleagues and friends, I would like to ask you to take your places and concentrate a little bit. Thank you for doing that. I see a lot of familiar faces in the neighbouring corridors. Please. Very nice from your side, to wait. I am sorry that we will have to wait a little bit longer. So I would like to resume the sitting; the election of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I would like to announce the results of the election for the President of the... 26/01/2026 | 11:54:22 Now, after this very important moment, saying goodbye to the outgoing President and thanks. Thank you to him. I would like to declare the election of the ingoing President of the Assembly. So, our next item of the agenda, you know very well, is the election of the President of our Assembly. So, in front of me I have received two candidatures. The first candidate nominated in line with the existing rotation agreement between assembly political groups is Ms Petra BAYR, member of the Austrian... 26/01/2026 | 11:27:25 Thank you so much for your extended remark but it was your opinion, and is not the rules of order related to our Agenda. I should apologise, sir, but you were... Any credentials? We are talking about credentials now. Friends? No. We will continue. I'm sorry, I should go back to our points. The other credentials, set in Document 16330, are now ratified. I welcome our new colleagues. Ladies and gentlemen, you are welcome. So, now we are going to the ceremony for the outgoing President of the... 26/01/2026 | 11:25:15 I just would like to ask 10 members from five delegations to support their current proposal. Yes. Thank you very much [spoken in German]. I think it's enough. The challenge has the support required by the rules of procedure. Accordingly, [for] the credentials of the Polish delegation, members are referred without debate to the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs. The Committee shall report within 24 hours if possible. And, at the same time, it will be... 26/01/2026 | 11:21:38 So, that challenge under Rule 7. I'm forced to cite that, is reminding the Parliamentary Assembly that under Rule 7, a challenge must be supported by at least 10 members. Thank you, colleagues. It seems, and at least from five national delegations, five present in the Chamber. Would those members support the challenge, please? It was done. Raise your hands. Yes, the challenge has the support required by the Rules of Procedure. [I am] just declaring that it exceeded the numbers and, according... 26/01/2026 | 11:11:43 Dear colleagues and friends, We are approaching the opening of the session. Please take your seats. I declare the First Part-Session of the 2026 Ordinary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe open. Welcome, allow me to say a few words in the beginning. In 1960, Ms Marie-Antoinette von LOWZOW, leader of the Danish parliamentary group here in this Assembly, recognised, in the resolution adopted by all parties, that the Baltic States were temporarily occupied by the...