23/06/2023 | 11:03:45 Yes, thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, I'll be brief. Just to remind you that precisely one month ago, on 23 May in Larnaca, Cyprus, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights gave its unanimous support to the report by our colleague Sir Christopher CHOPE on transnational repression. At our committee meeting two days ago, it rejected by a very large majority two amendments tabled concerning Türkiye. On the other hand, it unanimously accepted an amendment concerning... 23/06/2023 | 10:11:42 Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to express my admiration and respect for the work carried out by Sir Christopher CHOPE in this excellent report, which I believe is an essential subject because it cuts across a huge number of themes associated with human rights and the rule of law, and because the issue of transnational repression cuts across a number of subjects which we have had the opportunity to address in recent years, but in a... 22/06/2023 | 17:08:48 Thank you, Madam President. Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I'd like to extend my warmest congratulations to our two rapporteurs, Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS and Ms Linda Hofstad HELLELAND, for the quality of the two documents they have delivered to us, and also for the amendments that have been added, notably by our Ukrainian colleagues, and which we will be debating. The rapporteur Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS has obviously invited us to deal with both subjects. It's true that the two subjects are... 20/06/2023 | 15:27:31 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Mister Minister, I, too, would like to congratulate you on behalf of the French parliamentarians on your election as President of Latvia. A few days ago, the Committee of Ministers issued very favourable comments and opinions on the proposal and resolution we adopted in January last year, aimed at combating the phenomenon of enforced disappearances within the territory of the Council of Europe. This is a subject that has been amplified by the current war. We are... 27/01/2023 | 11:34:39 Thank you, Mister President. Dear Colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate the author of this report, Ms Marta GRANDE, and the member of the committee who has agreed to represent her. It is an extremely important report on several levels, firstly because it goes back to the fundamentals of the European project of the immediate post-war period. I recall, at the Hague Conference, the creation –in 1949, in parallel with our Council of Europe – of the College of Europe in Bruges... 27/01/2023 | 10:50:06 Thank you very much, Madam President. Ladies and gentlemen, As a senior member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, the oldest here this morning, I have the great privilege of speaking briefly on behalf of the Committee. I had the opportunity to follow, with great interest, the two hearings of experts organised by our two successive rapporteurs, Mr Fabien GOUTTEFARDE and our current Committee Chairman, and these experts, including representatives of very critical NGOs, who were... 27/01/2023 | 10:13:18 Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, First of all, on behalf of the ALDE Group, I would like to thank our colleague Mr Damien COTTIER for the quality of his report and the fact that he has taken over, almost immediately, from our former colleague Mr Fabien GOUTTEFARDE, who is an expert on these issues. According to the definition of the International Committee of the Red Cross to which this report refers, autonomous lethal weapons systems would be defined as "any weapon system that is... 26/01/2023 | 12:42:42 Thank you, Mr President. Madam Prime Minister, Thank you first of all for speaking in the language of Molière in this Assembly, which often hears a little too much English. Thank you again. You have shown priorities for your presidency and I fully share them. You have the opportunity to convene a Summit of Heads of State and Government. I would like to remind you that many of the subjects you have mentioned undoubtedly call for new international legislation, but there are many European or UN... 26/01/2023 | 11:19:43 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, Mr President, I would like to thank you for inviting Mrs Oleksandra MATVIICHUK to speak here. Madam, I would like to express all the emotion we feel for having been, often in a partial way, defenders of people who have suffered. What you yourself must feel, beyond the harshness of what people have suffered, is something terrible and I want to congratulate you and your organisation. I believe that this Nobel Peace Prize is fully deserved... 27/04/2022 | 15:50:05 It is with great emotion and rage that I address you. I am thinking in particular of our colleagues from the Ukrainian delegation, some of whom may be present. Others have joined the civilian and military forces to defend their country. For seven years, we ignored their cries of alarm about what was going to happen, and today we are discovering the dark reality of a horrible war, the dirtiest war we have seen on this continent since the Second World War. I therefore want to reaffirm both my...