11/10/2022 | 17:24:22 Thank you for a few questions. Let me start with the summit. Indeed, we've just come from the meeting of the joint committee which was, I think, a very useful one for two statutory bodies to exchange views on the summit. Let me just remind all that we are advanced in reflection, including the work on the report of the high-level reflection group that I was tasked to set, and that reported and gave several pieces that can be taken for preparing the summit and for deliverables of the summit... 21/06/2022 | 17:00:28 For security in Europe, I think that you are absolutely right. You are absolutely right to mention democratic backsliding. That was exactly the main title of my last year's Annual Report. What we can really see through the monitoring reports, you mentioned a number of our monitoring bodies, but also through other documents that in a number of our member States there is a slight backsliding in democracy. Actually, certainly some of this democratic resilience, which is, I think, part of the... 21/06/2022 | 16:55:14 Thank you very much, Ms Nicole TRISSE, for the question on what we did and thank you for mentioning once again the question of the visit to Ukraine. In fact, it was my third visit in less than a year. I went to the Crimean platform, I went there in November for an official visit and I went there, as I said before, on 9 May, for a visit to Kyiv. In each of these instances, in fact, I had many discussions with my contacts but as you can imagine, for the first two, we insisted a lot on the... 21/06/2022 | 16:35:59 Thank you very much. So let me start with the summit combined with the reflection group because although they are not one depending on the other, the reflection group is supposed to feed the reflection on the summit. I think the Chair of the Committee of Ministers was very clear about how the Committee of Ministers in Turin decided how to proceed regarding both. First, regarding the summit, so the idea of the summit came from this Chamber and it was very important and, I think very, very good... 21/06/2022 | 13:00:50 As I more often have the possibility to address this audience, I will be very short, and I will also talk later on. One point of general remark is that from what we heard and from what hasn't been said, but it has been said in different occasions, one thing is for sure, we can never be complacent and sure that our democracy is perfect. There is no such a thing as achieved for ever, security, as we can unfortunately witness for our country Ukraine. But one thing is for sure, that we all... 21/06/2022 | 12:18:51 This is the right approach. Upholding the principles of democratic security requires political will. The determination to support Europeans who believe in our values and those who are deprived of them in practice. So, I was pleased also that the ministers who gathered in Turin reaffirmed that civil society plays a vital role in achieving this organisation's aims. This is true also for the Russian Federation and for Belarus where national leaders have spurned them. Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA... 21/06/2022 | 12:14:04 Mr President of the Parliamentary Assembly Mr Chairman of the Committee of Ministers Mr Minister, Leader of the Belarusian opposition, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Council of Europe was created 73 years ago in the wake of two devastating world wars and on the promise of peace. As our Statute states, this requires greater unity among our member states. Over the years, we have worked to strengthen this union through common standards of human rights... 26/04/2022 | 16:14:02 For the Pegasus and surveillance concerns, I can only share the fact that in a democratic world, and certainly according, if we follow the standards of the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and a few our specialised conventions, like the Convention on Cybercrime, and Convention 108+ on data protection, certainly, they are there to protect our citizens from any surveillance. Of course, I heard of allegations in different member States before you talk about Spain and... 26/04/2022 | 16:09:55 Regarding the Kiev Office, you are right. What I did not say in my answer to the question "What are we doing with Ukraine?" is that all those who had the right and wanted to leave Ukraine – well, 61 of the people who work in the Kiev Office – we helped them to go either to Hungary or elsewhere. We provided several measures to help them, including psychological support measures, and for all those whose contracts were short or were due to expire very soon, we immediately put in place the... 26/04/2022 | 16:05:50 Yes, okay. First for budget and most precisely for the North-South Centre. Generally, yes the expulsion of Russian has led to a 7% of ordinary budget hole. It is yearly almost 33 or 34 million euros, so it doesn't make it easy, because our budget is overall not so big, so 7% makes a big hole. For how to counter that, me and my colleagues have already started talks with some member states. You already know that some member states, some parliamentarians among you have already contacted and some...