08/04/2019 | 12:24:32 I thank Ms Boriana ÅBERG for the progress report, and I have two questions. On 23 January 2019, we discussed the financial crisis in the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs in the presence of the Secretary General, Mr Jagland. There, a request was made to investigate alternatives to the proposed cut in the Council of Europe’s activities and staff. On 24 January, in the Presidential Committee, the leaders of the political groups decided to investigate... 25/01/2019 | 10:52:00 I read Ms Tineke STRIK's report with great care. Let me clearly state at the outset that I am against acts of terrorism, which spoil democracy, and I am against terrorists. Acts of terrorism deliberately aim to trigger unjustifiable pain and sorrow for innocent people. For me, terrorists, who are sometimes called “freedom fighters”, do not qualify as a minority who deserve exclusion from the application of democratically accepted laws and rules. Issues connected with terrorism and freedom... 21/01/2019 | 12:40:50 On behalf of ALDE, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the renewal of your appointment as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I thank Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER for the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee. I also thank Mr Andrej HUNKO and Mr Aleksander POCIEJ for reporting, respectively, on the presidential elections in Georgia and Armenia. Factual information is crucial to our function as members of the Parliamentary Assembly...