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Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS

Speeches since 2019

25/06/2025 | 12:01:55 Okay, this is enough. You are in favour. Thank you. Is anyone against? No. I consider that the Committee is in favour. So I put the oral amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. It is agreed. So we will now proceed to the vote on the draft resolution as amended, contained in Document 16196. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The draft resolution in Document 16196... 25/06/2025 | 10:03:12 The sitting is open. Good morning, dear colleagues.  Let me remind members that they should insert their badges before taking the floor. As you begin your speech, please press the microphone button once only, wait a couple of seconds and then start speaking. I would also like to remind the Assembly that members who have not submitted an annual declaration of interest are required to start any intervention with an oral declaration of interest under paragraph 20 of the Code of Conduct for... 24/06/2025 | 19:00:03 OK, I shall now put the amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. Amendment 15 is agreed. As Amendment 15 has been agreed, Amendment 11 falls. We will now proceed to the vote on the draft resolution as amended, contained in Document 16197, a simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. So, the draft resolution is unanimously adopted. Dear colleagues, the Assembly will hold... 24/06/2025 | 18:58:26 Okay. According to the rules, we need 10 members to stand up. So, to object. Meaning nine more to support what Sophia just said.  You have to stand up, Sophia, first of all, you. You and those who object. Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ, as I see.  We need 10 – you need 10.  Four, five. [The President speaks in Greek]. It's a Greek proverb. Six, seven. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight. We need 10.  So we don't have 10. Amendment 10 to the draft resolution is therefore rejected... 24/06/2025 | 18:54:19 The Committee is obviously in favour of the sub-amendment. I shall now put the sub-amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The rules are being followed, dear Pablo, don't worry. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The sub-amendment is agreed. Now we come to the main Amendment 35 as sub-amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the amendment as sub-amended? No. The Committee agreed that this amendment as sub-amended. I shall now put the amendment as sub-amended to the... 24/06/2025 | 18:51:48 The Committee is obviously in favour and I shall put the sub-amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The sub-amendment is agreed. Now we come to the main Amendment 26 as sub-amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the amendment as sub-amended? The Committee agreed this amendment as sub-amended. I shall now put the amendment as sub-amended to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed... 24/06/2025 | 18:49:03 The Committee is obviously in favour of the sub-amendment. I shall now put the sub-amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The sub-amendment is agreed. Now we come to the main Amendment 13 as sub-amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the amendment as sub-amended? The Committee agreed this amendment as sub-amended. I shall now put the amendment as sub-amended to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the... 24/06/2025 | 18:19:03 Thank you, Bertrand. The debate is closed. Before we proceed, I would like to inform you, you have already heard from me yesterday and today that President  ZELENSKYY is going to be here tomorrow at the Council of Europe. He will arrive at our Assembly at approximately 8:30 p.m. In the evening, 8:30 p.m. So I call on all of you, all colleagues, to be present. He will address the Assembly, and then he will receive questions. So, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a... 24/06/2025 | 16:26:19 Dear colleagues, today the Q-and-A procedure lasted for 30 minutes and I want to thank our Secretary General, Mr Alain BERSET, that he had agreed to have it for 45 minutes. It was actually 50 minutes. Dear Alain, thank you for being with us. And we are going now to the next item of business this afternoon, continuing this morning's joint debate on two reports from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. The first is titled "Legal... 24/06/2025 | 15:35:40 The sitting is open. Dear colleagues, this morning we held a ballot to elect a judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the United Kingdom, an absolute majority of the votes was required. I will now announce the results. Total number of members voting: 166. Number of spoiled or blank ballot papers: 1. Number of valid votes: 165. Absolute majority of the votes cast: 83. The votes were cast as follows. Mr Hugh MERCER: 151. Ms Deok Joo RHEE: 4. Mr Sam WORDSWORTH: 10. So Mr Hugh...