23/06/2022 | 16:31:34 Thank you, Chair. I need not detain the members who have been gracious enough to give me time beyond time for very long. I'd like to begin by a word of tribute to Mr John HOWELL for being there, and as our leader of the British delegation. A word of tribute because he's actually there, the only member of the Conservative governing party who's turned up. Those of us who have spoken from the United Kingdom are all from the Labour opposing side of the British Parliament, and it's a sad comment... 22/06/2022 | 11:36:41 Thank you, Madam Chair. I stand here as a recent National Church Leader and a more recent actor in the world of politics. From both sectors I recognise the capacities that exist that prove antisemitic attitudes have been bred into, hardwired into, the DNA of people in our public life. I am most grateful to Ms Petra BAYR for her report that has laid bare much of this and indeed to the rich speech that we had from the rabbi following her speech earlier. In Britain, though antisemitism is a... 20/06/2022 | 15:57:20 Thank you, Chair. To all who have taken part in this debate thus far, and particularly to Mr Momodou Malcolm JALLOW, for bringing before us material which I think is a reminder of what we have been, or ought to have been, and must continue to be. There is nothing radically new except the prise de position and a commitment to a future based on the values he describes. If I have a sadness with the report it is that it is largely reactive. Hate speech can only be dealt with when people have... 27/04/2022 | 20:09:11 Chair and Colleagues, It is a privilege to take part in this debate and I commend Mr Oleksandr MEREZHKO for his report but perhaps also the Chair of his Committee for so ably holding the fort in the circumstances. Perhaps I could also commend those who put this report together for their methodology. The readiness to use description and narrative as part of the case being made, making sure that we understand that it is illustrative rather than exhaustive, gives us a good entrée to the nature... 26/04/2022 | 18:38:54 Madam Chair and Colleagues, I want to say thank you for the report, or at least a great part of it, but not quite all of it. I am aware that the rapporteur herself – and I thank her for the report – made it clear that there is a legislative thrust to much of it. There I have no quarrel at all, but she also mentioned in her introduction, the fact that she was seeking something that was holistic. I believe that element of its being holistic lacks one essential element, which is the voice of... 25/04/2022 | 18:48:20 Mister President and colleagues, so good to be here. This report simply has to be commended. It establishes the need for action and lays the ground for future work. It needs to be invested with a sense of the greatest urgency. Others have mentioned pieces of legislation in their parliament. In the United Kingdom, over the last three years, we've been giving our attention to a new bill, the Online Safety Bill, whose provisions include a number of actions intended to address this very cause... 15/03/2022 | 12:52:37 Dear Colleagues, It's a pleasure, well perhaps pleasure is the wrong word, but an honour to follow the speaker from Poland in order to be able to thank Poland for the generous and gracious way it has received so many of those fleeing from Ukraine at this critical time. Dear colleagues, I am a writer. Words are my métier, but I find I have no vocabulary rich enough to describe my horror at the catastrophe happening right now in Ukraine, nor the feelings I have for the people of Ukraine, and... 26/01/2022 | 12:21:40 Thank you very much indeed Chair. We are grateful indeed for the hard work that's brought this report to our attention. Sport is indeed a factor for human development and personal and collective wellbeing, as well as for social development and economic growth. Money has radically changed the aura and atmosphere of sport during my lifetime. Its driving forces now are often profit, prestige and a cult of celebrity. This leaves sport with a dangerous underside which harbours inequality, abuse... 30/09/2021 | 16:21:41 Mr Chairman and colleagues, It is a privilege to be standing here to contribute to this debate. I would like to begin by congratulating Ms Anne-Mari VIROLAINEN for this report, which I think is extremely well-balanced. It does set out the duties and responsibilities, both of those who are at the borders, being brought to the borders and those who bring them to the borders, on the one hand, and the infrastructural needs for receiving them in a due and dignified manner. It cannot be surprising... 24/06/2021 | 10:09:22 Thank you Mr President and colleagues. I'm a minister of religion and I worked with diasporas for the whole of my working life. Mr Paulo PISCO's report is most welcome. Time is short and a number of important points have already been made. I'd like to highlight three aspects of this question which might be added to the report. Firstly, there's the importance of remittances: money sent by members of diasporic communities to their families back home. According to Organisation for Economic Co...