12/10/2022 | 20:27:48 Thank you. The Committee is obviously in favour. I shall now put the oral Amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The oral Amendment is agreed. Does anyone wish to speak against... sorry... I understand that the Committee wishes to move an oral amendment for conciliation purposes. If this oral amendment is agreed, amendment 14 will fall. In paragraph 13, after “pushbacks” add “, to call for the sharing of responsibility in the... 12/10/2022 | 20:24:41 Thank you. I shall now put Amendment no. 4 as amended to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call now for the result to be displayed. Amendment no. 4 as amended is agreed to. I understand that the Committee wishes to move an oral amendment for conciliation purposes. If this oral amendment is agreed, Amendments no. 6, 7 and 8 will fall. In the draft resolution after Paragraph 9, insert: "The Assembly calls on member States to encourage changes at European level to achieve a... 12/10/2022 | 20:21:05 Thank you. I have been informed that the Committee wishes to propose an oral sub-amendment as follows: "Delete the word legal immigrants and replace with migrants, so that the last part of Paragraph 5 reads: 'migration is a natural social phenomenon and should be addressed collectively as a continent in order to manage migration flows in an orderly way that helps to promote the social and occupational inclusion of migrants, while benefiting fully from its positive consequences'". In my... 12/10/2022 | 20:17:50 Thank you. Does anyone object? As there's no objection, I declare the Amendment no. 7 to the draft recommendation has been agreed. Now we will proceed to vote on the draft recommendation contained in Document 15592 as amended. A two-thirds majority is needed. The vote is open. Thank you. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The draft recommendation in Document 15592 is adopted. The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has presented a draft resolution... 12/10/2022 | 20:16:33 Thank you. Does anyone object? If so, please ask for the floor. Where is your hand? There are no objections. I declare that amendments 1–6 to the draft resolution have been agreed. The President would say now I should go to page... We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in document 15592. A simple majority is needed. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The draft resolution in document 15592 is adopted. I understand that the... 12/10/2022 | 20:15:32 Thank you. The debate is closed. The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has presented the draft resolution Document 15592, just to remind you, because this is a joint debate. The first document we will deal with is "Safer Countries for Asylum Seekers". To this document six amendments have been tabled, and the draft recommendation to which one amendment has been tabled. We will start with the consideration of the draft resolution, and then we will consider the draft... 12/10/2022 | 17:52:47 Thank you, distinguished Chair. Dear colleagues, We should not think of democracy in a static way. Democracy has continually evolved since its emergence. Across Central and Eastern Europe, democratic institutions have evolved from the ruins of failed socialist systems. A multi-party system, free elections, secret ballots and other aspects of a representational government have been rapidly developed since 1989 in many countries in the region. The very question posed by this report is the... 12/10/2022 | 16:32:25 Distinguished Chair, Prime Minister, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, I'm also shocked. This was disrespectful to this organisation. The report you mentioned was a report not of a Serbian delegation, Russian delegation or whoever. The report of this organisation. You show true disrespectfulness. It was adopted by overwhelming majority. We agreed with the Group of the European People's Party that I would ask you about the Open Balkan initiative, but it is impossible after... 11/10/2022 | 19:34:22 Thank you. Does anyone object? If so, please, raise your hand. That's not the case. No objection. I declare that Amendment 1 to the draft resolution has been agreed. So we will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15616 [as amended]. A simple majority is required. The vote is now open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The draft resolution as amended in Doc. 15616 is adopted. Congratulations to the rapporteur. Okay, dear colleagues, thank... 11/10/2022 | 11:39:38 Thank you, distinguished president. Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, For the last two decades it has been reiterated many times that the full EU membership for the Western Balkans is a geostrategic investment in a stable, strong, and united Europe. However, at this point, we have to admit that the EU enlargement policy towards the Western Balkans is at a standstill. Very modest progress has been made in the field of European integration in the region, and in recent years, the EU has...