28/09/2021 | 18:02:16 Thank you, Mr President. First of all, I would like to thank all those who supported me, who supported Ms Petra BAYR and who approve this report. I would also like to address those who talk about quotas. I have heard talk of quotas as in the Soviet Union. We are not in the process of establishing quotas by socio-professional category, by whatever means: the only quota that is valid here is to say that we need men and women, and preferably not one woman for every 30 men. That's all there is to... 28/09/2021 | 17:18:27 Madam Chair of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Madam Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Rapporteur for opinion and colleagues. I would like to begin by recalling the origin of this report. At the opening of the first session in January 2020, the credentials of six national delegations were challenged on the grounds that they did not include the required minimum number of women, which is supposed to correspond to their percentage in their home parliament. We were faced with a... 28/09/2021 | 10:53:08 Thank you, President. Madam Commissioner, As the initiator of a report in France on the care pathway for patients with Lyme disease, I would like to ask you about this subject, which currently affects more than one million Europeans. In a resolution of 15 November 2018, the European Parliament wanted to set up an EU plan to combat this disease with, among other things, clinical and basic research programmes. I know that the Commission has funded research projects, such as DualDur and ID-Lyme... 27/09/2021 | 17:03:21 Madame President, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, The clashes that took place in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 were a reminder, if one were needed, that so-called "frozen" conflicts are still conflicts. We are not here today to talk about responsibilities or geopolitics: the UN does that very well. However, and this is the whole point of today's debate, we have a duty to look very carefully at the humanitarian consequences of such conflicts, because they directly affect people whose most basic... 23/06/2021 | 17:26:44 Thank you, Madam President. I would simply like to table an oral amendment. I am sorry to do it so late, but we would like to delete a sub-paragraph. An amendment to delete sub-paragraph 8.2.4. of the draft resolution, because we have problems with this sub-paragraph. We think that it is difficult to apply and that, as a result, it would be counterproductive for the categories, the people concerned. If the rapporteur agreed to accept this deletion of the paragraph, even if it is an oral... 23/06/2021 | 16:16:28 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, All of us in this Chamber have the honour of representing our respective peoples. As such, we are supposed to reflect their diversity, but we know that there is still a lot of progress to be made. It is undeniable that women's participation in political and public decision-making has made significant progress over the past two decades, thanks in particular to the intervention of national parliaments, but we still have a long way... 23/06/2021 | 12:16:27 Thank you, Mr President. The Istanbul Convention is one of the most important treaties that the Council of Europe has initiated and drafted. It has even been described as a "gold standard" by the United Nations. Unfortunately, it remains a fragile achievement and is struggling to gain acceptance everywhere. Today, only 34 of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe have ratified it. On 1 July, the first signatory, Turkey, is due to withdraw from it, which I deeply regret. I deeply regret... 22/06/2021 | 12:08:54 Thank you, Mr President. Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ladies and gentlemen, At a time when most European countries have decided to make use of this type of system and the European Union has adopted the European health certificate, which will come into effect in a few days' time, we are today being called upon to give a formal opinion on the issue of the protection of fundamental rights and on the legal implications of the introduction of these so-called Covid-19... 21/06/2021 | 19:55:02 We will now proceed to vote on Amendment No. 18. Amendment No. 18 was adopted. The last amendment was adopted unanimously. It is Amendment No. 8. We will not need to take a vote, as was agreed. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15307, as amended. Members present will vote using the Chamber's voting system and members participating remotely will use the remote voting system. Is everyone ready? The draft resolution in Document 15307, as amended, is... 21/06/2021 | 19:06:37 Thank you, Mr KAIRIDIS. The general debate is closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a draft resolution to which 18 amendments and one oral amendment have been tabled. I understand that the Chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee wishes to propose to the Assembly that Amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 8, which were unanimously adopted by the committee, be considered as adopted by the Assembly. Is that so, Mr Vice-President? Yes. Is there any objection from the floor...