01/10/2024 | 11:43:54 Mister President, First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks for the many positive comments on this report from all political groups, but I would like to pass on their praise straight away, namely to the Secretariat, to Mr Francisco CABRERA and Mr Roberto FASINO on the one hand, but also to the mover of this declaration, who is no longer a colleague, Ms Tonia ANTONIAZZI, who took the decisive step for this report. I would actually like to thank everyone, including those who spoke... 01/10/2024 | 10:11:49 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, the subject of this debate is a matter of a great urgency I thank you all that so many people want to speak today, and it shows how urgent this debate is of how to respond to the propaganda in the context of the digital age. You can perceive the gravity of the situation and this impact in the electoral process, and you may even have experienced it first-hand. I am referring to malicious actors, equally foreigners or domestic, that spread... 30/09/2024 | 16:49:22 I would also like to start by congratulating the rapporteur and, of course, Mr MONTICELLI. It is somewhat unusual for a bank director to stand before a Parliamentary Assembly. But that is what is special about our development bank, that every five years parliamentarians make a report on the Bank and its business and that, like Governor Wenzel in the past, Governor Monticelli is now here to answer questions. And I can only say that I am somewhat surprised to hear criticism of the Bank's... 24/06/2024 | 15:55:20 Thank you, Mister President, First of all, I would like to congratulate the two Reports; the Progress Report and the Report by Mr Alfred HEER on the elections in Moldova, where we were together, and also followed the political change at all levels. The Progress Report reports on everything that has happened here between April and June during the reporting period - among other things, other countries have named their judges; and we will soon have three out of four of them here for the... 18/04/2024 | 19:03:06 Thank you very much, Mr President, I would like to follow on from Mr George LOUCAIDES, who cried and spoke quite clearly here; this is genocide - genocide against the Palestinian population. And one can say that in recent history there has hardly ever been such brutality as we are experiencing in the current Gaza Strip. This is a war against children and against women. That is the majority of the people killed and starved to death there. This can certainly be described as genocide and a... 18/04/2024 | 16:39:22 Thank you, Madam President, I too can only agree with the many, many congratulations on the fact that we now have such a framework agreement in such a short time and so quickly – and thus also set the tone in Europe and probably also internationally. Because then it is really very important that in the future, of course, in the regulation and implementation of the European Union's AI law, that wherever artificial intelligence is used, it is also identified for consumers, that it is clear that... 18/04/2024 | 11:24:07 Thank you, Madam President, In contrast to the previous speaker, for whom there is obviously no climate emergency and no climate crisis, I would really like to thank the two rapporteurs warmly, especially as a representative of a country that is still missing, sorely missing, a climate protection law even though our glaciers are melting, even though extreme weather conditions are increasing. I particularly welcome the resolution on the world's oceans, because right now we need a moratorium on... 17/04/2024 | 19:41:18 Thank you, Mr. President, I would like to begin by warmly congratulating the rapporteur. We are making history these days. Yesterday we made history with Kosovo. Today we are making history with a motion to move from the strict monitoring procedure to a post-monitoring procedure. I can remember when I was still Chairman of the Monitoring Committee, we were the first country - Monaco - to be released from the monitoring procedure. But the report says that where there is a lot of light, there... 15/04/2024 | 12:45:21 Thank you, Mr President, On behalf of my group, the Socialists, Greens and Democrats, I would like to thank the rapporteur warmly for this progress report on a very, very important time. There are a few highlights here that we must emphasise. One is the ruling of the Human Rights Court on Switzerland's duty to provide climate protection to its citizens. I think countries like mine, for example, which do not yet have a climate protection law, will have to learn their lessons from this. And I... 26/01/2024 | 12:21:41 Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman, Also from my side as former Chairman of the Monitoring Committee; my compliments to Mr Piero FASSINO, who has done an excellent job in these two years. This progress report is actually always the big summary of the various rapporteurs we have. There has been a very important change since 2015 in that there are not only those who are never looked at and those who are obliged to be looked at, but that every member state is subject to periodic monitoring. I...