30/01/2020 | 10:46:23 Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The IS terrorists have deliberately turned against our society and everything we stand for. They despise our values, our laws; our whole way of living. They have voluntarily joined an inhuman terrorist regime, they fight our liberal society with unimaginable violence. They have kidnapped, enslaved and often murdered tens of thousands of people in the most cruel ways. Although the IS has been defeated in large parts of Syria, its fighters have not suddenly... 11/04/2019 | 11:11:34 This document will supposedly make the workings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe better, but one has to wonder whether the proposed changes to Rule 19 will improve things. I think the opposite is true, because if a member is to be able to fully exercise his or her rights and to play a full part in the life of the Assembly, membership of a political group is a prerequisite. We have just heard that over 90 members are not registered with a political group. That is why, if...