21/06/2021 | 12:03:20 Thank you very much. The next item on the agenda is the debate on the progress report of the Bureau and Standing Committee, Doc. 15318, Doc. 15318 Add. 2 and Doc. 15318 Add. 3, presented by Ms Petra BAYR. This will be combined with the consideration of the report of the ad hoc Committee of the Bureau on the observation of the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on 4 April 2021, Doc. 15292, presented by Mr Alfred HEER, and the report of the ad hoc Committee of the Bureau on the observation of... 22/04/2021 | 12:09:13 Thank you very much, Madam President. Dear colleagues, it's the third urgent plenary debate we have on the situation in Turkey in the past year and a half. The main thing is the deteriorating situation of democracy, of human rights and the rule of law. Evidently, despite our warnings and recommendations, things have not been improving in Turkey. Far from it. How long can this keep up? It gives no one joy to have to remind that often a member of this Assembly, colleagues of ours, that their... 27/01/2021 | 12:01:35 Thank you, Mister President. First and foremost, allow me to congratulate our rapporteur for an excellent comprehensive resolution, at this given moment, dealing with the main issue at hand regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. However, I would like to add two points in the overall discussion taking place. We are witnessing an acute issue and even a potential legal dispute between the EU and some vaccine-producing pharmaceutical companies regarding the late distribution of the agreed-upon vaccine... 03/10/2019 | 10:19:52 Dear colleagues, Let me give you a little bit of the Greek experience. The Greek experience is 800 people today, between eight o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the morning, arriving at the Greek island of Mitilini. Before yesterday, a young mother 23 years old and her daughter of three years old drowned at a near island called Inusses. What does that mean? It means that thousands of people are coming again and trying to get to Europe. We had a crisis in 2015. I'm afraid we are in... 01/10/2019 | 13:09:21 Mister President, Welcome. Congratulations on your speech. You talked about the migration crisis. I am Greek, and in my opinion, we are facing a new great crisis. During the three summer months, 20,000 people arrived on the Greek islands via Turkey. It is very clear that Turkey makes no effort to stop this flow, on the contrary, it facilitates this migratory flow. Turkey is putting pressure on Europe for financial reasons — it wants a new agreement —, it wants Europe to accept its policy in...