24/06/2021 | 10:52:53 Thank you, Mr Vice-President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, On behalf of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, let me congratulate Mr Paulo PISCO on this substantial report, which is the result of many years of continuous work in our Committee on the subject of diaspora. As migration to and from European countries is constantly increasing, Europe needs to promote a standard diaspora policy in order to value and dignify the presence of diasporas in countries of... 23/06/2021 | 18:32:22 Thank you, Madam President. I have just heard our Russian colleague, Mr Yury OLEINIKOV, explain to us that there is no problem: move along, there is nothing to see. That the Russian Federation was a country that respected human rights. I got to know this issue in a modest way about three years ago with my Swiss colleague, Mr Manuel TORNARE, who was in charge of this issue before Ms Thorhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR, and he explained the situation to me a little. I'm fairly sure I can believe what... 22/06/2021 | 17:22:15 Vice-President, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues, History has taught us that pandemics, in addition to causing mass deaths and fear, have always brought chaos, social unrest, often political upheaval, even revolution, and always socio-economic instability. So how can we therefore be surprised, then, by the significant impact of Covid-19 on our lives in terms of the way in which we have been living for the past year? Without a vaccine, we would have had several years of successive waves... 21/04/2021 | 18:11:43 Thank you, Mister Vice-President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, As a doctor, I can only agree with the words of Ms Martine WONNER, whom I congratulate on her excellent report. There is, undoubtedly, discrimination, and even stigmatisation, of people with chronic diseases: problems of access to employment, problems of access to social benefits, problems of access to public buildings if the disorders affect motor skills and many others. On the other hand, society, in a spirit of... 21/04/2021 | 11:56:49 Thank you, Mr Vice-President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, I must tell you that I was not really surprised by the popular reactions last summer after the presidential elections, which President Lukashenko won by a landslide. I want to tell you a story. In November 2019, I went to Minsk with the delegation to observe the parliamentary elections and I saw some interesting things: everything was calm, very calm. However, I witnessed peculiar elections; in fact, elections without... 19/04/2021 | 16:52:02 Madam President, We are aware of your intention to hold early parliamentary elections in order to implement the ambitious programme that you have set out this afternoon, to put an end to corruption, for a reliable justice system and to ensure that socio-economic recovery can take place in this very polarised political situation, "at the crossroads of worlds", to quote Josette Durrieu, you have just obtained a green light from the Constitutional Court. But there is another problem: the Covid... 27/01/2021 | 11:40:39 Mister Vice President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, Let us take the measure, if you will, of the good fortune - I say good fortune - that we have the opportunity to speak today on the ethical, legal, and practical considerations of vaccination against COVID-19. Remember, at the beginning of 2020, the question of the possibility of rapidly developing a vaccine remained open. Pessimism was in the minds of some experts. Let us imagine today without a vaccine. We would be facing a... 26/01/2021 | 12:04:03 Mr Speaker, Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, As a profound democrat, convinced of the essential importance of respecting a whole series of principles which are also the foundations of the Council of Europe's values, I will list what I believe in, as we all normally do here - although sometimes I wonder. Here is my profession of faith: I believe in the principle of equality, in respect for the fundamental rights of the individual, in a fair, equitable and transparent electoral system, in... 31/01/2020 | 12:26:15 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, It is customary to say that everything has a price, but in this case, life and death are priceless. I'm a doctor and I'd like to give you a little medical insight into this whole thing. Decisive medical advances have led to spectacular medical breakthroughs over the years in the field of transplantation: surgical advances, but above all progress in the field of immunosuppressive treatments, anti-rejection treatments, especially with the appearance of... 30/01/2020 | 18:03:08 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, Thank you for your various interventions. I liked your tone, a tone of revolt, a unanimous tone, a strong, determined revolt. You have expressed a call to action,... We have a lot of reports, a lot of conventions, but we have to act now. We have priorities: it's helping the victims. We have to protect them. We must fight against criminals and traffickers, we must inform and denounce them relentlessly. Each success in dismantling a network, for example...