20/06/2022 | 15:35:57 Thank you very much, Ingrid, Yes, the fight against racism, against hatred and against intolerance must be conducted in parallel on many, many levels. It makes absolute sense to start with the political elites. One of the reasons for this – even if not as much as in the past – is that politicians are still something of a role model for many people, or at least they should be. They certainly set an example in their behaviour, in their actions, in their speeches. That is why it is very, very... 20/06/2022 | 12:12:01 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to start where Mr Aleksander POCIEJ ended at the Serbian election observation, where I would like to share some really concrete concerns with you and share some main points of criticism. Three of them are more general, which is, first of all, the access to media, which is very uneven and we saw that especially with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The party of the president had the vast majority of time and media, especially TV, which is the... 27/04/2022 | 18:09:38 Thank you very much, Madam Chair, Organised crime accounted for about 800 billion in turnover in 2017. This includes human trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal trade in art objects, forced prostitution, money laundering, extortion, white-collar crime, online crime. In addition to this organised crime, there is corruption. Corruption as an abuse of economic, political and cultural power is diametrically opposed to the realisation of human rights, because it simply undermines the rule of law... 27/04/2022 | 17:48:17 Yes, sexual violence and rape are means of war, they are war crimes under the Rome Statute. And you need different ways how to produce evidence. It will not help to use satellites, it will not help to count graves, you really have to provide the survivors of sexual violence and their caregivers with know-how and with tools. Tools are equipment. How, for instance, how to save DNA or questionnaires to fill directly after a rape. As long as you really clearly remember details. And also kits for... 26/04/2022 | 12:27:58 Yes. Thank you very much Madam Commissioner for your report, for your recommendations, and also for your work in general. Both the questions I wanted to tackle you've already mentioned. It concerns people fleeing from Ukraine. At the beginning there was the concern that we had push-backs of people without Ukrainian citizenship, without ensuing international protection. I want to know what exactly could we do to really protect people, displaced people, fleeing, without distinguishing, and... 25/04/2022 | 17:06:27 Thank you very much, Mr Tiny KOX. I will take another focus. I want to remind you all that about a year ago, or last year at least, we have taken a decision to change our rules of procedure. This change in the rules of procedure obliges us to bring more women into this Assembly. It is now a friendly reminder to all of you not to forget that by January 2023, the number of the women in your national parliaments has to be mirrored here in your delegation. But at least, there will have to be a... 27/01/2022 | 17:08:56 I actually wanted to speak German, because what I'm going to say is very Austrian. At the moment, esotericists, anti-vaxxers, virus deniers and conspiracy theorists are taking to the streets together, hand in hand with convicted neo-Nazis, shouting "we are the new Jews", wearing yellow stars and carrying banners that say "vaccinating makes you free". This is unbearable. It is far from any historical truth; it downplays the Shoah, it downplays the Holocaust. And I was particularly affected by... 27/01/2022 | 12:49:53 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to focus on the second part of the title of the current affairs debate: what role for the Council of Europe. And it is indeed not an easy question to answer. It's quite simple what I would suggest to a member country, namely do not become or not stay economically dependent of a country that is problematic when it comes to human rights, to the rule of law, to free and fair elections, to implementation of verdicts of the European Council of Human... 27/01/2022 | 09:11:05 Thank you very much Ms President. "No one is safe until everybody is safe", the report quotes several times. There are still countries where less than 1% of the population is vaccinated, so there is still a long way to go and a lot to do. It's not only because of humanity, to think globally and in an intelligent way. Otherwise, the virus will have the possibility to mutate into new versions which also increases the challenge we all face globally: how to overcome this disease, this pandemic... 26/01/2022 | 12:31:15 Thank you very much Madam President. I really want to support this report. I think it tackles really very important issues, but I want to add another thought: the crises we all witness on many folds – the pandemic, the climate crisis, the crisis of democracy, of rule of law, of uneven distribution of wealth and I would like to add another one which is the growing intolerance. In this respect it is another crisis we are facing: the dislike of the unlike, it's growing in a rapid way and the...