28/09/2021 | 12:14:29 Thank you very much, Madame President. Selin, I also want to applaud you for this really comprehensive and important report and I especially want to line out article, or paragraph, 10.4 where you tackle the impact of economic activities and human rights and we must not forget the situation beyond Europe due to long and very complex supply chains, the environment, social rights and human rights are infringed. We see for instance poisoned air, having fresh water, child labour, slave work and... 27/09/2021 | 15:36:43 Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, I would like to do something unusual, I would like to use the Progress Report not to talk about content, but to talk about the other side, so that parts here of politics, namely how we work and how we work with each other here in the Assembly, how we also try to create visibility and create impact for our politics. I would like to take as an example, because this is also mentioned in the in Progress report, the June session where we had this High-Level Panel... 24/06/2021 | 17:22:04 There are about 15 million people of African descent living in Europe. It is the very first report in 72 years where our Assembly really has a focus on these people, one year after the murder of George Floyd. Even if the report comes very late, I am really grateful that the report comes and I am very grateful to you, that you really made it happen, and that you put this important focus onto this issue. Racism is quite often a topic. Anti-Black racism is not so often a topic and, it was... 23/06/2021 | 19:14:04 Thank you very much, Madam President. I will not start to list all the human rights violations which are included in the report. We all hear that we can read it, it was debated throughout the last hour. I want to draw your attention to the fact that almost every article of the European Convention on Human Rights is at stake, from torture to freedom of press, to freedom of religion, to personal liberty and security. I should underline that the targets of these violations are very often Crimean... 23/06/2021 | 17:24:15 Yes. Thank you very much. The report includes a lot of important recommendations. Among others it focuses on role models and on the visibility of people from under-represented and marginalised groups. If you can see that people from such groups have success, if you can see that they really have a say and they really can make a difference, that might encourage other persons from these groups also to get active, to get involved, to have their voices heard and to participate actively in all... 23/06/2021 | 12:22:08 If you own a real precious treasure, the gold standards of legal protection of women from all forms of violence. If this treasure doesn't get less, if you share it but in contrast it becomes more potential if you apply it to more people, a real precious and mighty tool to protect women from violence, the more signatures, ratifications and implementations there are you consider your self really lucky. We all would unveil ourselves unintelligent if we would not promote and advocate in favour of... 22/06/2021 | 09:55:42 Thank you very much. Question time with ministers has the structural flaw that it is no longer possible to respond in any way to ministers' answers, however unsatisfactory, incorrect or inadequate they may have been. Yesterday, I used my 30 seconds with the Hungarian Foreign Minister to present a case. I want to use today's discussion on media freedom to do so and to have a little more time to do so – a case where two Austrian journalists are researching the political situation in Austria's... 21/06/2021 | 17:02:00 Thank you very much, Mr Rik DAEMS. Mr Minister, when an Austrian journalist is posing three written questions to a Hungarian member of th European Parliament, it can happen that the fact that the journalist is doing her job ends up at the public Hungarian TV, where in five broadcasts, the journalist is denigrated as incompetent, amateur, spreading fake news about Hungary. And it can happen that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is not calming down this artificial conflict but is fuelling the... 21/06/2021 | 16:39:38 Yes I do. Thank you very much. I would like to respond to some selected issues. When Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK from Ukraine applauds Liechtenstein for ratification of the Istanbul Convention I very much hope that we can be the next to congratulate Ukraine for the ratification. We very much appreciate the steps forward you are doing in the signing and ratification of the Convention. The GREVIO was mentioned as a the body who monitors the implementation. I also can inform you that GREVIO will do a... 21/06/2021 | 12:04:27 Thank you very much, Ms President. Dear colleagues, this progress report covers the time span from 26 April to 18 June. From my point of view it's really two months of concern. The pandemic is not over yet and the distribution of treatment and care is very uneven even globally. The policies of some countries, especially richer European countries, prove that there is a priority for profits of the pharmaceutical industry over global health. That's the opposite of solidarity. That's the opposite...