28/09/2021 | 12:34:17 Thank you very much, Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ms Selin SAYEK BÖKE, most sincerely for this very good report, which has also come at the right time and, as our speaker Mr Momodou Malcolm JALLOW has already said, has the full support of the Group of the European United Left. This report follows in the tradition of a series of reports adopted by this House in recent times. I would remind you that in June we had the debate on... 22/06/2021 | 17:50:12 Thank you very much, Mister President, I will say a few words, but I will be brief. First of all, thank you very much for the many and also very positive feedbacks. I was really very pleased. I would like to take up one point in more detail, the point made by Mr François CALVET and also Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN; the question of the relationship to the EU's stability and growth pact. Mister François CALVET, you said that the EU has just reached an agreement on how it should deal with this... 22/06/2021 | 16:53:06 Dear Mister President Dear colleagues, Today we are discussing the report on overcoming the socio-economic crisis triggered by Covid-19. A deep economic crisis has been triggered, which has also been exacerbated by the fact that many states were not well prepared for the pandemic. If you look at the effects of this economic crisis on the different parts of our societies, you have to say that the effects were very unevenly distributed. While the pandemic affects everyone somewhere, the... 22/06/2021 | 11:46:40 Thank you very much, Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that, with regard to all the repercussions of the Covid-19 crisis, this Assembly has reacted very well and at a very early stage. If you look back, by producing a report at a very early stage on the measures, on the effects on human rights, but also, as early as January, on the issue of the voluntary nature of vaccination, patents and so on and so forth. I believe that this report continues this tradition, that it is a... 21/06/2021 | 16:25:05 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I will speak in German. I would like to say a few words about the elections in Albania. We were there as a delegation in April and I think that Mr Aleksander POCIEJ's report is very good and I congratulate him on it. However, I would like to highlight two things. The first is the problem of vote buying, not only in Albania but also in other countries where sections of the population are very, very poor. This was also a big problem in Albania in... 20/04/2021 | 09:22:25 Thank you, Mister President, Can you hear me? All good. Okay, thank you very much, Mister President, Yes, this is a very important debate we are having here. I would like to start by saying that vaccination is, of course, one way out of the pandemic. We can already see in some countries where vaccination is very far advanced that the pandemic seems to have been overcome, for example in Israel or in Gibraltar. But we have a problem: the distribution of vaccines in Europe and worldwide is very... 27/01/2021 | 16:23:53 Thank you very much, Ms Chair, I will try to bring some calm back into the debate. For the Group of the European United Left, it is clear that we condemn the imprisonment of Mr Navalny, even if excessive action is being taken against protests in Russia. We believe that people who are imprisoned for political reasons should not be imprisoned, even if - as seems to be the case in Russia now - there are, as it were, formal constructions leading to their arrest. We have various cases among the... 27/01/2021 | 10:45:14 Thank you very much, Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would also like to thank the rapporteur, Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN. I think that this is an excellent report, which really does give a very good account of the complex debate we are having on the issue of vaccination. So congratulations, Madam DE TEMMERMAN. In my view, the debate we are having on vaccination has three dimensions, which I would like to address here. Firstly, the question of distribution, accessibility... 26/01/2021 | 18:44:15 Thank you very much, Mister President, I would like to start by thanking the rapporteur, Sir Edward LEIGH, for this report, because I think, like all the group speakers here, that it is a balanced resolution. I would simply like to remind you of the situation in which this Assembly found itself just a few years ago. It started with the resolution in April 2014, where the Assembly sanctioned the Russian members. This was then perpetuated, and we often had an escalation situation in the... 29/01/2020 | 18:48:04 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would also like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Tiny KOX, for this report, and also Mr MANIERO for his opinion on the report. Both are exactly in line with what we decided here by a large majority last June. Most of the amendments attempt, so to speak, to leave this line again, and I think it is very right that we should continue along this path. I would like to mention this again, because many things are now being addressed which do not belong here in this...