25/06/2024 | 18:37:43 Colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, In July 2016, the Commission presented a proposal for a new Asylum Procedures Regulation with the aim of introducing a truly common procedure for international protection that is fair and efficient while removing incentives for secondary movements between member states. The common EU asylum procedure regulation contains rules to ensure that applications for international protection are decided fairly and efficiently in accordance with human rights and the law... 25/06/2024 | 16:56:10 Thank you very much, Mister President, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you very much for this initiative. We are firmly of the opinion that people who defend human rights deserve our protection, regardless of whether they are men or women or diverse. Everything that happens to female human rights defenders, the examples you have given, is disgusting and frightening. It is no less disgusting or frightening when it affects male or diverse human rights defenders. I don't think the... 25/06/2024 | 10:28:06 Mr President, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, Young people must not be lost to democracy. I think this is an approach that unites us all, and many thanks to the rapporteurs who have presented their Report here. But not losing young people also means making policy for young people. And intergenerational justice, this buzzword, also has something to do with whether debts are incurred at the expense of generations that have not even entered the workforce yet. Intergenerational justice... 19/04/2024 | 11:22:57 Mr President, Dear colleagues Ladies and gentlemen, The Internet is a colourful place – a world of its own that operates according to its own rules. You can travel in it and see wonderful things and learn many fascinating things. However, it is also a dark, dangerous place that you have to learn to navigate. Even for adults, it is not easy to evaluate the wealth of information and impressions available there and integrate them into reality. Fake news, manipulation and brainwashing are dangers... 15/04/2024 | 15:48:01 Thank you very much, Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank our rapporteurs for their work. Today, I must once again cite examples of why it is so important to discuss this issue and find solutions. – No money for party-affiliated foundations. – No vice president in the Bundestag. – No chairman of the committee. – 182 million euros of taxpayers' money for the so-called fight against disinformation, which in reality is a fight against the only party that contradicts the... 13/10/2023 | 12:37:13 Dear Mr President, Dear colleagues, The present Report is honorable and expresses our irrepressible will to work tirelessly as the Human Rights Council to ensure that human rights are universal and applied everywhere on earth. Unfortunately, several important aspects are not mentioned in this Report. From the protracted Afghanistan mission of the last decades we have to draw the painful realization that it is not possible to establish democracy and human rights in places it is absolutely not... 23/06/2023 | 11:57:48 Madam President, Dear colleagues, Some 63% of the world's population has access to the internet. Almost 40 percent do not. This is where the "great divide" runs. The EU has already announced its intention to invest 200 billion euros to bridge this gap. This also involves German taxpayers' money. Therefore, please allow me not to approve the resolution without at least asking important questions. Why are there no recognised alternatives to the lifestyle that requires more and more digitality... 28/04/2023 | 11:12:19 Mister President, Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, The topic of young people and the media is an area of great tension. I would, therefore, like to focus on a few points that, in my opinion, cannot be emphasised highly enough. First, dealing with the media has to be taught and learned. Adolescents must develop a sense of whether they are being manipulated by the media, who might benefit from it, and for what reason. They must learn to do research and not blindly fall for propaganda or... 14/10/2022 | 12:32:52 President, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak about the situation as concerns democracy in Germany. First of all, fundamental values upon which the Council of Europe is built, parliamentary democracy, with its plurality, a cultural system which involves protection of the rule of law, human rights of every individual. These are the obligations of every individual and every government. To stand equal before the law, tolerance, social integration, and diversity have to be... 13/10/2022 | 18:37:47 Mister President, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, Women's sports deserve the highest recognition because they help girls and women gain self-esteem and self-efficacy, the drivers of emancipation and lived equality. Anything that helps to make women's sports a safer place for women and girls is to be supported. Sport also does a great job as a catalyst for integration. In sports, gender, ancestry, language, and religious or political views play no role. This is a great achievement for...