27/01/2022 | 09:03:36 Last Sunday, which was 23 January, we lamented over 346 million known infections and over 5.5 million deaths worldwide. In Europe alone, there were nearly nine million new infections in a single week and more than 21 000 deaths, despite vaccination and initial treatment successes. Can we just accept this? After two years of the pandemic, we have now learned and experienced a great deal, and the great miracle was the rapid development of safe and effective vaccines that could protect us from... 25/01/2022 | 17:55:06 Thank you very much, Mister President, First of all, I would like to congratulate you from the bottom of my heart on your election. It is really a great pleasure to see you in this position. I would also like to warmly congratulate Ms Annicka ENGBLOM as rapporteur on behalf of my group on this report. It is an excellent report, a very valuable report. I would like to highlight some points that occur in your report that are particularly important to underline. First of all, our rapporteur once... 28/09/2021 | 10:26:30 OK. Thank you, Mr President. Dear Commissioner, dear Stella, it is always a great feeling to see you with us and I congratulate you in the name of my group for your extraordinary work. I have two questions. We have the situation that in a lot of European countries people are not willing to have their vaccinations and the gap between those who had the vaccination and those who will not do is growing deeper and deeper, and this is not good for our society. What are your strategies? And the... 27/09/2021 | 16:48:40 Thank you very much Madam President, On behalf of my political group, Mr Paul GAVAN, I can only thank and congratulate you on this excellent balanced report. Personally, I would also like to do this, as I have been the rapporteur for the Monitoring Committee for a country in conflict here for over five and a half years. In recent years, I have always been amazed by the depth of this hatred, this mutual hatred. And once I went to Tbilisi and I went twice to that district where Armenians and... 27/09/2021 | 12:23:45 Thank you very much, Madame President. You were a part of our team in Moldova, which was excellent. First I want to thank our committee in the pre-electoral mission and in the electoral mission for their work together; I had the honour of chairing it. Mr Tiny KOX said in a committee meeting on election day in the Republic of Moldova that the result was a feast of democracy. Indeed, it was a feast of democracy. In the pre-electoral mission we were deeply concerned about the polarised... 22/06/2021 | 17:34:07 Thank you, Mister President, Mister President, I too can only congratulate the Social Committee, the rapporteur and also the rapporteur. This report comes at exactly the right time, namely, now the question arises. Firstly, who pays for the crisis and how do I prevent a recession? Those are the two very worst things that could possibly go completely wrong here. The important thing is – and this crisis has shown it – how dramatically the situation of the disadvantaged population has developed... 22/06/2021 | 09:25:19 Thank you very much, Mister President, Not only as spokesman for my group would I like to warmly congratulate the rapporteur, but also as General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists. That as a comprehensive right, namely that one actively gives knowledge and also has the opportunity to obtain knowledge at any time and anywhere, that is one of the core elements of democracy and also of empowerment. Mister Roberto RAMPI, you reminded us of Galileo Galilei today and I would... 21/06/2021 | 12:17:42 Thank you very much, Madam President. First of all, I would like to thank all the rapporteurs for these reports that we have heard today. One thing is good: that our work is picking up momentum again, that we are going on so many election observation missions again and Albania – I was in Albania with Mr Aleksander POCIEJ – surprised us in that it was really calm, lively after all the problems that existed before the proposals of the Venice Commission were adopted. As far as electoral reform... 22/04/2021 | 09:20:59 Dear Minister of State, Thank you once again. Thank you also for this determined and dynamic leading German Presidency in these difficult times. Thank you for also putting the Istanbul Convention right up front. Pope Francis was here once with a statement. He did something very remarkable: he passed on to us the core competence of the Church and of faith by saying the European Court of Human Rights is the conscience of Europe. That is remarkable because normally the Church says we have the... 21/04/2021 | 19:11:47 Thank you. Mr President, First of all I would like to congratulate the two rapporteurs for their work in Montenegro. I myself have been intensively involved in this process over the last ten years and it was right for us to change strict monitoring into post-monitoring, which is also proving successful. One of the greatest successes is when democratic change happens after an election, as we had in Georgia on the one hand with the Georgian Dream as a beacon. But the development in Montenegro...