09/10/2023 | 15:44:37 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Rapporteurs, dear colleagues, Forty-six member states in a changing world with some very painful episodes. The President of our Assembly reminded us of the difficulties faced by many peoples with natural disasters of course, whether earthquakes or floods, but also fires that have plunged families into mourning, but also and above all with territorial aggression: Ukraine of course, but also Armenia and, for the past two days, Israel. So much violence, so much hatred... 21/06/2023 | 16:40:31 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, Allow me first of all to congratulate our rapporteur on her excellent work. The ambitious roadmap of the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe must be at the heart of the organisation's program and budget for the period 2024-2027. As Chairman of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, allow me, Mister Chairman, to say a few words about the implementation of these priorities. As we all know, the most ambitious... 19/06/2023 | 15:49:39 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Rapporteurs, Dear Colleagues, My comments will be limited to the report by Mr Frank SCHWABE, whom I would like to thank for the quality of his work. The parliamentary and presidential elections held in Türkiye last May, just a few months after the deadly earthquakes in the south of the country and in northern Syria, aroused great interest in international opinion, as the polls suggested a possible political changeover despite the fact that the country has been... 26/04/2023 | 19:27:18 Thank you, Madam President. Mr Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, Under Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights is binding in the member States of the Council of Europe, and the Committee of Ministers is responsible for ensuring that these judgments are properly executed. This eleventh report is an illustration of this, and I congratulate the rapporteur on the quality of his work. The statistics given to us are not... 25/04/2023 | 19:03:19 Thank you, Mr President. Madam Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, The partner for democracy status was created by our Parliamentary Assembly 13 years ago to encourage parliaments of non-Council of Europe member States to embrace the values we hold dear: democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. The status of partners for democracy has so far been granted to the parliaments of Morocco, Kyrgyzstan and Jordan, as well as to the Palestinian National Council, with... 25/01/2023 | 12:06:27 Thank you, Madam President. Mr Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, I would like to thank Mr Duncan BAKER for this report. The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic led to the extensive use of contact tracing applications to identify people who may have been infected or to ensure compliance with lockdown rules. Despite the public health benefits of these technologies, there has been some reluctance to making them more widespread, mainly because of... 24/01/2023 | 18:19:17 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Rapporteur, Dear Colleagues, Europe is at a crossroads. It is both weakened by the economic and political consequences of the war in Ukraine and strengthened by the attraction it continues to arouse, as illustrated by the applications for membership expressed by Ukraine, Georgia, and the Republic of Moldova. In this changing context, the role of the Council of Europe must be redefined and, in this respect, the decision of the Committee of Ministers to convene... 28/04/2022 | 17:43:25 Yes, thank you, Mr President. I understand what the author of the amendment is denouncing. Except that when we look at the facts, we are saying that the Assembly is sensitive to the criticisms of the institutions that have not been able to respond to the different challenges, but that, at the same time, these criticisms are the result of a manipulation. The way it is written, we cannot accept the idea that the criticism is the result of manipulation. I believe that we must recognise that our... 28/04/2022 | 17:23:43 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to thank all those who have spoken on this subject. I have heard congratulations and I am very sensitive to your positive remarks. I have also heard constructive remarks, remarks that tended to improve the scope of this motion for a resolution and report. I believe that we must be very careful in this matter. You will have noticed that at no time did I mention any country in the negative examples. I just mentioned, of course, Russia's aggression in... 28/04/2022 | 15:32:47 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, Mr Chairman of the Committee, Mr Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, First of all, I would like to thank the colleagues who were at the origin of this report – I am thinking of Mr Piero FASSINO – and all those who have contributed to drawing it up: the Venice Commission, of course, but also the Secretariat of the Committee. This report was born out of a difficult observation: democracy is in clear decline in the world and in...