16/04/2024 | 19:15:40 Thank you, distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, As noted earlier, the readiness of a candidate to join the Council of Europe shall be assessed only on the strict criteria which are based on fundamentals principles of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The member states of the Council of Europe shall endeavour to respect human and minority rights and good governance standards to develop and promote pluralist democracy. However, in essence, when we are talking about Belgrade and... 15/04/2024 | 16:20:22 Thank you distinguished Chair, dear colleagues. First of all, thank you for the debate. If someone listened carefully and at least two of us, our distinguished Chair of the Committee and the others, we listened carefully, could see that, of course, everybody, as experienced MPs back at home, first of all, spoke about his or her personal experience, about the country, and I like the most, the exact comment, "We are experts on this topic". Indeed. Me, personally, I enjoyed this work and when I... 15/04/2024 | 13:00:00 Thank you distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, Additionally to being rapporteur of the draft report on the "Relationship between the parliamentary majority and the opposition in a democracy", this afternoon, I also have the honour to step into the shoes of my colleague, madam rapporteur, Ms Isabel Meirelles, who has been responsible for the preparation of the report on "Promoting the revised Code of Good Practice on Referendums". I will cover, as it was said by the Chair, but I am not sure... 23/01/2024 | 16:12:10 Thank you. [speaks in other language] Distinguished Mister President, the European Union enlargement is indeed a two-way street but after such a long time it is obvious that the Western Balkans' enthusiasm and spirit were somehow lost and the time passed with insufficient engagement and without a sufficient effect. As you said, and we all know, Montenegro has opened all of the chapters but closed only three. And it seems that a lot of work still awaits. Therefore, not only for Montenegro but... 22/01/2024 | 17:39:41 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Promotion and consolidation of pluralist democracy is one of the main objectives of the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly and in that sense Obeservation of the early parlimentary elections in Serbia, following the main CE documents, indicates flows and failures in the process of the electoral integrity. With due respect, considering that many important things are presented, I'd like to stress that this Report missed two... 11/10/2023 | 18:54:48 Thank you. Distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for this excellent report. She managed to emphasise the situation and formulate recommendations about what could be done. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of prejudice against people with disabilities in our societies. It is obvious that these people are among the most marginalised. They experience stigma, prejudice, and suffer many different forms of exclusion from society and... 09/10/2023 | 17:34:20 Thank you. Distinguished President, dear colleagues, Let me remind you all, that in addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in January this year, I warned that the political dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina had reached its turning point. Either the Community of Serbian Municipalities will be formed or it will sink into irrelevance. And further, we are witnessing the culmination of the long-term crisis, due to Pristina’s attempts to completely exclude Belgrade from... 19/06/2023 | 17:11:07 Thank you, President. Mister Minister, It's a pleasure to see you here. As a representative of the Hungarian minority living in Serbia, I'm really witnessing the really good relations between Serbia and Hungary. I think part of it is because Serbia is constructive. Serbia understood in receiving our constructive proposals. Therefore, I would like to ask you about minority rights: how we can refrain different countries from withdrawing already-achieved minority rights and how we can ensure... 26/04/2023 | 19:54:22 Thank you. The debate is closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a draft resolution (Document no. 15724) to which 2 amendments have been tabled, and a draft recommendation to which no amendments have been tabled. Amendments are listed in the compendium. We will start with consideration of the draft resolution and will then consider the draft recommendation. I understand that the chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights wishes to propose to... 25/04/2023 | 19:56:53 Thank you very much, the debate is closed. The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy has presented a draft resolution [Doc. 15740] to which no amendments have been tabled. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15740. A simple majority is required. Ah, OK. I saw that something is happening and I wasn't sure what is happening. So, we will wait for a few minutes... but we can open the vote. So, dear colleagues, the vote is now open. The vote is closed. I...