28/04/2022 | 10:33:21 Dear Minister, Vladimir Kara-Mourza, one of Russia's leading independent civil society figures, who has already been convicted of insubordination of law enforcement agencies, has been remanded in custody on the basis of a new provision, which makes the dissemination of "false information about the use of Russian armed forces" punishable by 10 years in prison. Sentenced for telling the truth about Russia's aggression in Ukraine. What do you intend to do, at the level of the Committee of... 27/04/2022 | 10:42:00 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, I would like to start by thanking our colleague Mr Frank SCHWABE for this report on the consequences of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. We see these consequences immediately in Ukraine, of course, through the destruction and the migrants thrown onto the roads, who are fleeing the war and its attendant barbarities. We also see them immediately in the neighbouring countries that are hosting these refugees, and I am thinking... 15/03/2022 | 19:39:53 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, Only two years after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a new conflict has broken out between two Member States of our Organization. A conflict of a magnitude that shakes the whole of Europe and that questions very directly the values of our Organization. I sincerely regret that all the diplomatic efforts made to avoid this conflict did not bear fruit. The Russian aggression against Ukraine, which began on 24 February, is unacceptable. The Committee of... 28/01/2022 | 10:49:00 Good morning, Mr President. Dear colleagues, I would like to welcome the very comprehensive report of our colleague Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN and I congratulate him. For my part, I would like to mention two points of this report in particular: Georgia and the future work of the Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Council of Europe Member States, of which you elected me as chair. Concerning Georgia, where I recently visited with my colleague Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, we are concerned about the deeply... 26/01/2022 | 12:28:14 Thank you Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank our Rapporteur, Mr Carlos Alberto GONÇALVES, for his very precise analysis of the issues related to sports policies in times of crisis. I am all the more sensitive to it as I was, in the French Senate, the rapporteur for the bills relating to the organisation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024 and I have often spoken about sports values and access to sports practice. The report of our colleague rightly underlines the... 29/09/2021 | 16:50:52 Thank you, Mister President. We have finally realised that we are degrading the environment in which we live and that this threatens not only our health but the sustainability of our species on Earth. I am therefore pleased that our Assembly is taking up the environmental issue today and its relationship with human rights. The right to live in a healthy environment has been introduced into national law by several member States today. Today the record of implementation of the Paris Agreement... 27/09/2021 | 19:19:49 Thank you, Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the ALDE Group and on my own behalf, I would first like to congratulate our colleague Mr Tiny Kox on this report, which reminds us that parliamentary immunities are provisions designed to guarantee the proper functioning of democracy, not to confer any privileges on parliamentarians. I therefore support the draft resolution, which aims to ensure that the immunity system be applied consistently. The first thing to remember is that the... 21/04/2021 | 16:47:32 Thank you, Mr President, Madam Commissioner for Human Rights, You mention in your report that you wrote to the French Senate about the proposed law on comprehensive security. I wanted to inform you that the text that was finally adopted incorporates numerous amendments made by the Senate, which has given a stricter framework to certain provisions in order to ensure the necessary reconciliation between security and the protection of public and individual freedoms. Then you point out in general... 20/04/2021 | 12:13:25 Thank you, President, dear colleagues. I thank Mr Tiny KOX for the quality of this report, which stresses the new challenges the Council of Europe today faces. Of course, the draft resolution rightly stresses the growing challenges to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as well as the emergence of new threats that require an adaptation of the legal framework. The Council of Europe, with the benefit of its extensive and recognised activity in negotiating international standard... 20/04/2021 | 09:36:16 Thank you, Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, In order to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on free movement have already been put in place between member states within the European Union. For example, travellers are required to take various types of proof such as medical certificates or negative test results. Some people are now proposing that this system be extended to all member states to allow access to restaurants, sports...