21/04/2021 | 11:07:46 Thank you Mr President. I see you've got a lot of passion. It's the same down here in Strasbourg. I do hope that we can meet in the near future. I obviously hope as you do, to be able to be here. I see in your answers that you really are a forceful defender of the European Union. May I inform you, that we here, and I myself am a forceful defender of the Council of Europe. As you say, we are natural partners. We should join forces. This is synergy you know. One plus one makes more than two. I... 21/04/2021 | 10:36:05 Thank you very much Mr President for these inspiring words. I'm not going to linger long on them although I could. Just reminding that as you say we are natural partners and we should join forces. And since I'm Belgian, I'm not so far away from Brussels you know. So who knows, I'll pop in and put some of your intentions into practice which I would really welcome on behalf of the Parliamentary Assembly. Let's head into the questions because otherwise I'll be under fire of my colleagues down... 21/04/2021 | 10:05:16 Dear colleagues, Please take your places. We're going to start. I hope that some other of our colleagues of the ALDE Group are going to come in here. Okay, we'll have to start. Good morning, dear colleagues. Please take your seats. Welcome, my good colleague and friend President of the European Parliament David SASSOLI. We are very glad to have you on board. Members are trickling in because as you know they had the group meetings. So I'm like ringing my bell to get them in. Anyway, they are... 20/04/2021 | 15:28:36 Thank you Mr Secretary General for, as always, your inspiring words. When you mentioned this 107 billion dollar tax revenue it made me think of an American series in the 1970s. I just looked it up. I don't know whether you know it, but that was a series that was called The Six Million Dollar Man. You know that? With Lee Majors, the bionic guy. Well, let me say that Mr Secretary General, he may have been the "Six Million Dollar Man" but you're the "one hundred billion dollar man". Super... 20/04/2021 | 15:02:25 Well, we do not really have any more time so I do apologise, Madam Secretary General, that we have to finish up because we have our other debate which is going to start. Maybe in the future we might seek to have a little bit more time in our agendas, both yours and ourselves, in order to address some more questions. I am very sad and sorry, but okay, we've got Ángel Gurría who is waiting. So I'm in the middle of Secretary Generals here. Yourself, mine - well not mine - the one of the assembly... 20/04/2021 | 14:28:08 Amendment 11 has been accepted by the Committee with a large majority. I shall now put it to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Result please. 108 in favour, 11 against, 13 abstentions. The amendment is carried. We will now proceed to the vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15252 as we amended it by amendments and including the oral amendment. We require a simple majority in this case. Members present in the Chamber use the system here, for remotely use the system... 20/04/2021 | 14:21:12 Okay. So just to be clear, the Committee is against the amended amendment. We have the information of the rapporteur who explains that he will, to a certain extent, address the issue later on. We now put the amendment to the vote. Just to be clear: we had an original amendment, it has been amended, and the amendment as it stands now is put to the vote and the committee and the rapporteur are against. The vote is open. Vote is closed. Results: 35 in favour, 71 against, 16 abstentions. The... 20/04/2021 | 14:12:56 The committee accepted it. So, I shall now put the amendment to the vote. Members present in the chamber, as you know you use the system here. Members remotely, use your remote voting system. Mr Sergey KISLYAK, your amendment has been forwarded by the rapporteur. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Result: 73 in favour, 21 against, 12 abstentions. So the amendment is carried. We now come to amendment number 12. I call Mr GONCHARENKO to support amendment 13. You have one minute. No? It's... 20/04/2021 | 14:08:55 Thank you. I understand the Committee rejected the amendment Mr Chair? I shall now put the amendment to the vote. Members present in the Chamber should use the hemicycle voting system, so those of you here please use the system using your card. Members participating remotely should vote using the remote voting system. The vote in the hemicycle and via remote voting is now open. Are we okay with that? The vote is open. The vote is closed. Results please. 34 in favour, 53 against, 11... 20/04/2021 | 14:03:31 Dear colleagues, If I may ask you to be seated, so we can start our work. I still see some short private discussions to my left. So that's done. We still have a big discussion between the lady in light blue and the gentleman with the blue tie. Don't worry, don't worry, I'm not gonna throw anything at you. No problem. Okay, the sitting is open. The next item on the agenda is the continuation of the debate on the report titled "The Assembly's vision on the strategic priorities of the Council...