14/03/2022 | 16:45:56 Thank you very much. Dear Mr Undersecretary, I welcome you on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, at a time of devastating destruction, with millions bearing immense uncertainty. We as a group have emphasised that it is time for crystal clarity and defending the core values of our very own organisation. In this capacity we have two questions. First, given once again a dire humanitarian crisis we face, and given the unfortunate prospect of it prolonging, what further concrete... 27/01/2022 | 09:56:44 Thank you very much, Madam President. Firstly, I'd like to thank our rapporteur Mr Stefan SCHENNACH and the Secretariat for writing such a comprehensive and balanced report in such a short time. The Covid-19 pandemic has been evolving very dynamically for over two years now. This requires that we also keep dynamic vigilant and prepared for the next turn of events. This is what this report actually does. The aim of the Resolution and Recommendation is to ensure that we do not need any further... 25/01/2022 | 15:57:34 Thank you, Mr President, Madam Secretary General. I'd like to welcome you on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group. I have two questions that are linked. The first is: there is the drama unfolding for years now with regards to an ongoing flow of migration and asylum-seeking bringing about the displacement of millions of people and this is only being aggravated further and further. So, as Secretary General of the Council of Europe, what are your plans specifically on fighting... 24/01/2022 | 18:05:51 Thank you very much Mr President. I'd like to congratulate you once more on your new duties and thank Mr Rik DAEMS for all that he's done for the organisation. So today we are discussing two reports that are actually very timely and critical. I'd like to thank both rapporteurs – Baroness Doreen E. MASSEY as well as Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN – on, first and foremost, having ensured that the voices of children were heard not only through the report, but also through the process of the report. I... 29/09/2021 | 16:24:10 By all means! I salute everybody on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group. It's very heartening to hear a consensus that we all strongly believe that we need intervention to avert a climate crisis and we need it now. Clearly, such an intervention has to be holistic. We've already discussed many of the items that it should include. Firstly, I'd like to underline that we need to change the structure of our world economy. Secondly, we need to ensure that the structural transition... 29/09/2021 | 10:46:42 Thank you very much. Clearly without a healthy environment we are unable to even live at a level commensurate with minimum standards of human dignity and we face a deep crisis in this regard: a crisis of climate, a catastrophic level of global heating. And clearly it is important to properly frame the issue at stake in order to properly identify the policy response to be taken. The risks are very high. The destruction of wild spaces facilitates the emergence of zoonotic diseases. We are... 28/09/2021 | 19:23:21 Thank you very much. I'd like to congratulate the Rapporteur. Now these are crimes perpetrated or ordered by the members of the victim's family or acquaintances. Now it comes in the name of protecting family and values, traditional culture, yet it does nothing but destroy lives and destroy families. Clearly "honour" crimes are a specific type of gender-based violence. We should note that we already have the strongest legal instrument of all to fight against such horrific atrocities. We have... 28/09/2021 | 17:31:32 Thank you very much. On behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group I'd like to express our strong support for the report and opinion on it. Clearly, as the Assembly we should not treat the changes to our rules from this resolution as a final destination or a revolution. But rather we should know they are a step in the right direction. In the words of UN Women's Executive Director 'only half is an equal share and actually only equal is enough' - and we're not even there with this... 28/09/2021 | 15:45:38 Thank you very much. Dear Secretary General, On behalf of the Socialist Democrats and Greens group, I welcome you. Clearly, we are going through times where the core values of our very organisation are challenged and, as Secretary General, what are the concrete steps of action you plan for the organisation to take in the next one-year to strengthen the role of the Council of Europe in upholding democracy, human rights, and rule of law? Maybe, you could give concrete steps for the plan in... 28/09/2021 | 12:56:29 Thank you very much. I'd like to start by thanking each and every one of our colleagues for their very important contributions and actually indeed for a very fruitful debate. I strongly hope this enthusiasm that we are sharing lasts across our policies and legal issues that we deal with when we go back to our member states. A couple of comments, and I'd like to underline some of them in reference to what we already have in the resolution. There seems to be – even though we use different words...