07/04/2025 | 12:02:47 Thank you very much, Mister President. I have to mention at the beginning, it was the very first time in general that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) observed elections in Kosovo, and it was a different setting as we know it. Usually there was no audio; it was just us as a delegation, and the European Union with also a small parliamentary delegation. We made separate reports, we made separate observations, but we were very well co-ordinated in whatever we did. Our... 31/01/2025 | 11:31:49 Yeah, thank you very much. I think that all or most of your intervention showed the urgency to tackle ageism against all the persons and fully protect the rights of all the persons in our member states everywhere. This is also about building inclusive and cohesive societies and intergenerational links and also solidarity among generations. Ms Andrea EDER-GITSCHTHALER... I will tell her back home in Austria that many of you praised her for her work. Indeed, she will be happy about that. Andrea... 31/01/2025 | 11:01:02 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman. Ms Andrea EDER-GITSCHTHALER, who is the rapporteur of this very important report to protect the human rights of older persons, regrets that she can't be here with us today, but she is, for half a year, chairing the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament, and they have sittings this week and so, I will do my best to present her report on "Overcoming age-based discrimination against older persons". So let me start with the obvious. And the obvious is... 30/01/2025 | 11:42:47 Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. There are many important and good reasons why it is important to have free and fair elections in Belarus. Probably the most important reason of all is to establish the rule of law. The rule of law that allows free trade unions to operate, for example. Last week I met with the chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, Alyaksandr. He was imprisoned; he escaped. There is no freedom of assembly. Those who want to represent people and fight for... 29/01/2025 | 16:47:06 Thank you very much dear Theodoros, In any substantive challenge to credentials, the role of our Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs is to consider whether the correct procedures have been followed within the rules, and to consider whether the proposal in the draft resolution complies with the rules of procedure. So, our report is not on content, but just on procedure. The proposal in the report and draft resolution of the Monitoring Committee is for the... 28/01/2025 | 10:50:13 Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much, Theodoros. Mister President of the Court, Mr Marko BOŠNJAK. The UN framework for a sustainable future, the Sustainable Development Goals in their goal 16, focus on strong institutions, including access to justice, which is key in institutions, but also key to meet all the other goals. Also the pact of the future of the UN is clear on this and well functioning courts are substantial in this regard. Knowing other international courts and how they... 03/10/2024 | 18:18:42 Many thanks firstly to Simon for the great report, thanks to Aurora for presenting it, and thirdly to the young activists for the impressive presentation of their important project today. I would like to talk about something that is not very exotic, namely free school meals from small-scale farmers. I believe that it can be a real win-win situation. Both for the transformation of food systems and for the right to food. We know that child labor is on the rise. In our region, in Europe, around... 02/10/2024 | 10:41:20 Yes, thank you very much. I would also like to start by thanking Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR for this important report, but of course, also Mr Julian ASSANGE, not only for his courage over all these years, but also for finding his first way here to us in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe three months after his release. I think this is also important because it is a sign of the relevance of the Council of Europe when it comes to fighting for press freedom, which is... 01/10/2024 | 20:13:16 Thank you very much. I also would like to congratulate Max and Mariia for the report and the opinion. I think both are very well done. I would like to focus on two aspects or two amendments that came from the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, namely, on the one hand, it was originally Amendment 11 and Amendment 14. Amendment 11 calls for considering a Vienna process-type dialogue with all relevant human rights interlocutors in Iran and abroad. So what is the Vienna process? That's... 01/10/2024 | 12:56:02 Yesterday here, Mr Vladimir KARA-MURZA, and this morning in the Committee on Legal Affairs, Mr Julian ASSANGE, have, I believe, made it clear that the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly really do have an impact, really can make a difference. I see many other areas where this is also the case whether it is the question of enforcing the human right to live in a healthy environment or whether it is that artificial intelligence must not undermine human rights, whether it is that we...