16/04/2024 | 14:55:07 Secretary General, as you know recently the Court is under the judgement in an environmental case. You know there is a lot more in the pipeline and given this judgement, we might expect, there is so many more to come. This Assembly unanimously recommended to the Committee of Ministers to create a legally binding instrument concerning a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Even to the extent to include it in the Convention itself through a protocol. My question is, what is the... 21/06/2023 | 16:08:55 The first thing I would like to say is basically, and Mr George KATROUGALOS has said it too, we are in the hemicycle of the European Parliament, our budget is 1% of the budget of the European Parliament. To put it in an American way, that is one cent on the dollar. That is what we mean in terms of human rights, the rule of law and democracy. Think about it! One cent on the dollar. So this is a message to the Committee of Ministers and, of course, to those who need to negotiate it, do you not... 25/04/2023 | 15:22:50 If a meeting is measured by its results, then I guess a big meeting is measured by big results. I guess that the summit is measured by summit-sized results. Madam Minister, What real, tangible, and impactful results would you pursue as a result of this summit? May I request that the linkage of the environment to human rights be there, as requested unanimously by this Parliamentary Assembly, so requested unanimously by all the peoples of the 46 member States? Secondly, as Mr Frank SCHWABE and... 24/01/2023 | 19:11:36 Hi, Fiona. Great job! Thank you for including the environmental issue into the report, because it is crucial to millions and millions and millions of young people who are looking at the political world and asking themselves why the hell don't you do something about it. I think that we can now. I would like to start by something that I heard at the beginning of the debate, the very first speaker, Mister President, was John HOWELL. He said "why would the UK PM come to the Summit?". I'll tell... 23/01/2023 | 16:29:42 Thank you, Madam Chair. Our group has had a profound discussion regarding the prosecution of Daesh foreign fighters from Syria. Our group supported the establishment of a special international tribunal or hybrid tribunal with jurisdiction over international crimes committed by Daesh foreign fighters. Now the report insists that a trial at home is essential because prosecution in Iraq is currently not an adequate and human-rights-compliant solution and there is a risk of further radicalisation... 23/01/2023 | 16:02:21 Thank you, Chair. I am not speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I am speaking on behalf of the Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment, which was established in January last year on the basis of the resolutions and recommendations that we passed unanimously in 2021, where we asked to establish a protocol on the Convention of Human Rights and even also to have some legally binding instruments as others in the Social Charter. What I am doing now is I... 14/03/2022 | 16:49:15 Thank you, Mr Undersecretary, Dear colleagues, words matter, but action matters more today. As the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, we welcome what we have done, but we think that we can do more. We can do much more. As you flagged in your intervention, you said that more measures are needed. My first question would be what are the measures that you are thinking about as the Committee of Ministers? More importantly, as far as I'm concerned and the Alliance of Liberals and... 24/01/2022 | 16:24:08 Thank you, Madam President. Thanks to all the colleagues who intervened. On behalf, obviously, in joining me on congratulating the new President and on commending me, that was not necessary, but it always feels nice, I have to admit. Two elements upfront: gender equality, environment and human rights. It is clear that this needs to be on the agenda. I thank all of you for flagging that again, but then you should work on it. It is not enough to say it. It has to be done. So I, as one, in the... 24/01/2022 | 15:42:35 There are two elements that are really, in my book, most important, the first one concerns gender equality in the Istanbul Convention – we were able to revisit it in June but we took it on afterwards. By the way, Mr President, if I may give you one word of advice, book your ticket to Mexico, they are waiting for you now, just to sign up to the Istanbul Convention, so that is one of the elements that is waiting. We wanted to go before but let's say that lucky enough now this is your privilege... 24/01/2022 | 15:40:49 Thank you, Mr President. I am no longer president: I am the outgoing president, past, as you wish. You are the president. Congratulations, once again, on your election. I am sure that all of us will be able to work with you to achieve results that will perhaps surpass what we have been able to do in the last two years. I hope so, anyway. The fact that I can make this report is a little tradition, if you like, that the outgoing president has the opportunity to thank everyone a little bit...