11/10/2022 | 10:47:29 Thank you, Madam Vice-President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, I am Swiss: we are talking about accession to the European Union, so I am not well placed. I am not a great specialist in the Balkan region, even though I have participated in election observations in the region on several occasions, and I have twice been with a Swiss parliamentary committee to visit Swiss troops – yes, there are Swiss troops abroad, in this case in Kosovo. I would like to make a few comments which I... 24/06/2022 | 10:26:42 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, Vaccination is undeniably a weapon in the fight against many infectious diseases. For some, it is only a short step to cling to the dogma of the infallibility of vaccines, the royal road to answering all the challenges and questions related to these problems. Yes, vaccines are useful and, for the most part, effective. Yet, they are often the subject of controversy. I am a physician, I practice vaccinations, and yet I have... 23/06/2022 | 16:47:51 Thank you, Madam Vice President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues, Russia's war against Ukraine is having a series of collateral effects. We have seen the tragedy of the Ukrainian people, the systematic destruction, the unspeakable violations of human rights. We have seen the energy crisis, with the soaring price of gas and oil, inflation, and the energy poverty that is taking hold in some countries. Now there is the wheat crisis. It is using this story as a weapon of destabilisation by... 23/06/2022 | 15:59:43 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, In the field of migration, innovation never stops. At the time, we had the agreement between Turkey and the European Union. For all these years, we have had the pushback with the dramas in the Mediterranean or elsewhere. Now we have certain countries proposing to change their national law, allowing the realisation of pushback. Now they are proposing vacations in Rwanda - we have just spoken about this at length. Dear... 22/06/2022 | 18:43:11 Thank you, Mister President. Many thanks to all the speakers in this great debate. I would like to make a few comments and then a personal note at the end. Mr Miroslav ŽIAK asked a question to know if we had had contacts with international organisations. You should know that here, in the Council of Europe, we have very close relations with the UNHCR, in particular Mr Wissner who is the representative of the UNHCR to our Assembly. That, on the spot, we saw people from the UNHCR. We had a lot... 22/06/2022 | 15:40:20 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues, This is a mission that was organised in record time, given the urgency of the situation. I had the opportunity to visit Ukraine, but in fact I visited Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. First of all, I would like to sincerely thank the Council of Europe office in Warsaw; for Slovakia, we were helped by the IOM, the International Organization for Migration; for Romania, especially by Ms Diana STOICA and the Romanian... 27/04/2022 | 11:56:55 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, I would like to thank Mr Frank Schwabe for this important report, which covers the main political, economic, social and humanitarian consequences of this conflict which has changed the reality of Europe for a long time. I am in charge of a report for the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population on the humanitarian and migratory consequences of the conflict. I will be visiting Ukraine in the next few days. I would like... 26/04/2022 | 16:39:02 Thank you, Mister Vice-President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, The care of people with disabilities is a priority for our different countries. Disabilities are diverse and their impact on people's lives varies greatly. Congenital diseases, intellectual disability, psychiatric disorders, the consequences of accidents, degenerative diseases or debilitating cancer: a diversity of suffering and restrictions in the existential capacity. It has been said that a society can be judged by... 15/03/2022 | 16:07:29 Thank you, Mister President. I arrived in Strasbourg full of emotion a few years ago. Entering the temple of human rights, in this high place where all European countries, except Belarus, had united to build a Europe of peace, of respect for human rights and democracy, with the underlying founding idea: never again this, never again a war that tears our continent apart. I have long believed in dialogue with Russia and in peaceful co‑existence. Today I can hardly believe the magnitude of the... 26/01/2022 | 18:36:40 Thank you Madam Vice-President. It's good timing, I'm speaking just after Mr Aleksandr BASHKIN. I just wanted to say that I was not convinced. Congratulations to Mr Jacques MAIRE, I am going to talk about medicine, cynicism and morality. A very scientifically and medically sound report, Mr MAIRE, and very clear. It is a pleasure for me: it reminds me of my pharmacology classes and, really, things seem to be clear and lucid. As a doctor, I would like to challenge a medical practice that is...