26/01/2022 | 16:56:57 Thank you, Mr President. In three minutes, two things. The first thing: I address all our colleagues who are against ratification and I ask them this question. We have no more tools if we refuse to ratify the powers. What dialogue can we have with the Russian authorities if we build a wall and if we interrupt all our relations? We will have no influence. We will not help those in Russia who work every day to assert the rule of law, to respect human, civil and political rights, to help the... 26/01/2022 | 15:42:53 Thank you, Mr President. First of all, I would like to congratulate you: I am really happy about your election and I am convinced that we have a president who can manage our work well. Regarding the issue on the agenda, as you know, this year, as in previous years, there was a request to discuss the Russian credentials because some members of our Assembly consider that the credentials of the Russian Federation should not be accepted. Therefore, the item was put on the agenda and discussed in... 30/09/2021 | 12:23:09 Thank you. I agree entirely with the report by Mr George PAPANDREOU and I thank him for it. I believe that we must start from a very simple consideration: 18 years have passed since Thessaloniki, 26 years have passed since Dayton and integration is still a long way off. This is causing disappointment and frustration in the region, and the expectations of these peoples, of these countries, towards the European Union are waning. Someone wrote it, however, and someone circulated it, and it is a... 30/09/2021 | 11:47:46 Tous nos vœux au Premier ministre. J'ai deux questions. Je partage le sentiment de frustration et de déception face à la situation dans les Balkans, que le Vice-Premier ministre a également exprimé, car trop de temps a passé : 26 ans se sont écoulés depuis Dayton et 18 ans depuis Thessalonique, et l'intégration européenne est encore loin. Je crois donc, et je suis d'accord, que nous devons absolument accélérer. Ma question est donc la suivante: aujourd'hui, l'adhésion de la Macédoine du Nord... 30/09/2021 | 09:39:53 Thank you, Mister President, In three minutes I want to focus on a few issues. I thank my colleague Sir Tony LLOYD and agree with his report. The theme seems to me to be this: "Isolate or interject with the Taliban?". Clearly, looking at what the Taliban are doing, our first instinct would be to isolate them. However, isolating them would mean giving the Taliban a free hand over Afghan society, making those who are fighting so courageously for their rights even weaker and handing Afghanistan... 24/06/2021 | 12:07:02 Thank you, President. And I agree with the report presented to us by my colleague Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ, I thank him and I would like to develop in three minutes three points. Firstly, those who land in Greece, Italy and Spain want to come to Europe, and this is a very simple issue that can be easily observed. The fact that there are countries that continue to consider that the management of migratory flows is the responsibility of the countries of first arrival, as provided for in the... 22/04/2021 | 12:22:09 Thank you very much. However... I would like to say this to the Turkish Members, to Ms YILDIZ and to the others: there is no prejudice against Turkey in the Council of Europe. This attitude of our Turkish colleagues of always presenting themselves as the victims of prejudice, of preconceptions, is not founded. Turkey is a great country, as we know. Turkey, through one of its influential representatives, held the presidency of this assembly a few years ago. Turkey is a country that is listened... 20/11/2020 | 15:15:29 So, I would also like to thank Mr Frank SCHWABE who has done a really excellent job. Now, it is clear that all of us would like to do the assembly in attendance as soon as possible and we hope to be able to do it in January. However, this is not in our hands. It is clear that, if the epidemic continues at the current rate, we are not sure whether the conditions are in place to attend the assembly in January, and we must therefore have flexibility. I think that the proposals that Frank has put... 30/01/2020 | 15:41:07 Thank you, Mr. President. The Italian delegation asked for this urgent debate because the Mediterranean and the Middle East are affected by particularly important events. Of course, as some have objected, the Mediterranean and the Middle East do not belong to the area of the Council of Europe. But no one can ignore the fact that everything that happens on our doorstep, and the Mediterranean is on our doorstep, affects us and produces dynamics that directly affect us. One needs only to think... 29/01/2020 | 16:07:43 Thank you, Secretary General. No, I want to ask you a question that is linked to the events that most closely affect the Mediterranean. From Libya to Iraq, we are faced with conflicts and crises that have many critical points, one of which directly affects us as the Council of Europe. I am referring to the humanitarian consequences on human civil rights that these crises produce: from millions of refugees to the harassment of women and children, to prisoners who are tortured and summarily...