14/10/2022 | 11:17:34 Many thanks, Madam Chair, I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur on a very balanced and pertinent report. It was not an easy issue. The fundamental rule is established in the Oviedo Convention on Bioethics. We are the masters of our bodies. Nobody can impose to us any kind of medical act without our informed consent and vaccination is a medical act. It was not easy to find a compromise – a balanced compromise – between this rule and the necessity of protecting public health in... 13/10/2022 | 19:20:29 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. I, myself, also want to congratulate the two co-rapporteurs for a very comprehensive, very clear report. I agree on all points both regarding the findings and the suggestions, so I am not going to be very analytical; I am going to be very brief. I also want to express my satisfaction coming from my neighbouring and friendly country that Romania is back on the road of reforms and the problems of the past related to some problems regarding the relations of the... 13/10/2022 | 17:20:55 Thank you, Mr Chair. I am really grateful to all the colleagues that have intervened. More grateful to those that have adopted a more aggressive stance, exactly, because they are going to give me the opportunity to clarify things. First of all, as I said, the discussion of the Committee did not reflect either the intensity or this narrow – let us say – distance between the yes or no I have seen in the discussion before. And I have asked many times, both through the UK delegation and also... 13/10/2022 | 16:30:28 Many thanks, Mister Chair. As you can imagine this issue, the impact of Brexit on the human rights and the island of Ireland is one of the most important political issues both in Ireland itself and in Northern Ireland. I tried to investigate not just the political arguments, but through my travelling both to Dublin and Belfast and later on in London, to try to understand also the fears and the concerns, not just of politicians but of ordinary people. And I had a chance to meet NGOs and I had... 13/10/2022 | 11:12:24 Thanks Mr Chair, From the first moment all of us, in unanimity, have been committed to the defence of both Ukraine and its sovereign rights, and/or in defence of the international legality. We should continue to act like that. In this vein we fully support the report. However, now we're facing important questions regarding diplomacy. I have full respect for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But if I understood correctly what he said, what he answered to my question, I cannot agree with him that... 12/10/2022 | 17:27:18 Thank you very much Mr Chair, I would like also to congratulate and comment on the work done by the two rapporteurs. I think that the contrarian argument I have heard by the conservative colleague; that there is a kind of plot against these ideas in the particular country and the particular leader; there is very concrete evidence for the contrary. Since 2011 we have 23 opinions of the Council of Venice, of the Committee of Venice, related to electoral, legal or constitutional problems of the... 23/06/2022 | 18:08:53 Thank you, Mister Chair. First of all, I would like to thank Mr Jacques MAIRE for his impressive work, and a thorough report. He has managed to deliver where his predecessors did not make it. I would like also to thank Mr Serhii KALCHENKO for his contribution to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. I am especially glad that we had also the chance to hear the views from Kyrgyzstan by a member of the parliament there. And I think that Mr Jacques MAIRE has made the situation clear... 23/06/2022 | 16:44:27 Thank you, Madam President. The previous speaker has demonstrated very well how Ukraine is not just the bread basket for Europe but for the rest of the world as well. She has also demonstrated that the biggest risk is now for vulnerable countries, especially those in Africa. There are cases like the one she has mentioned of Egypt that has a dependence of more than 80 per cent. There are other countries in the sub-Saharian area, especially in east Africa – Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia – which... 23/06/2022 | 15:46:50 Thank you very much, Chair. We owe a lot to the United Kingdom. It is the country that has the longest parliamentary history in the world. In Greece, when there is a vacuum in our written constitution, we refer to the British constitutional history as an indirect source of our constitutional law. The United Kingdom is the country in which their legal authors have saved the concept of the rule of law. When we are facing such worrisome, I would say even preposterous cases, like the Rwanda case... 23/06/2022 | 11:29:57 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. Many thanks to the Rapporteur Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN for his thorough work. It is not accidental that the two previous speakers are from the Netherlands. As already explained by the last speaker, that was a permanent source of grief, this flight in this country; a scar in the national psyche of the Dutch people. But justice is never local; it is universal. What we are discussing today is how the victims of this flight could be vindicated. It has already been...