12/04/2019 | 12:04:34 Rapporteur, thank you for this excellent report. This is the end of your mandate, and the culmination of years of work. I hope that in the future you will be responsible for other very interesting reports on artificial intelligence and big data, which is your academic specialism. In his last report to the Assembly’s Bureau, the Secretary General of this Organisation, Mr Thorbjørn JAGLAND, talked about the proposal for a European convention dealing with artificial intelligence. That is why... 11/04/2019 | 16:54:56 I warmly congratulate Mr Mart van de VEN on this important report. It would have been nice to have been able to discuss it on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday when there would have been a better turnout and more attention paid in this Chamber. This makes me think of the report from Mr Dick MARTY of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe a few years ago on mafia groups which had a major impact on public life and led to an in-depth consideration of a very common reality. I don’t agree... 11/04/2019 | 10:50:57 Thank you, President. We should pursue our debate on this report, which is on modifying the Rules of Procedure and not on what was said just now. I would like to make a few comments, one of which is theoretical and the other is on the report itself. As a parliamentarian, I was sitting in the committees that considered these constitutional issues and the reform of the laws and rules of the Chamber. In both cases, we applied the following principle: we should work on consensus. Reforms have to... 08/04/2019 | 16:36:53 Madam Commissioner, thank you so much for the work that you are doing; thank you for your efforts and your work. On page 15 of your report, you refer to the human rights of persons living with a disability and you specifically refer to Spain, talking about the right to vote for persons with a disability. Madam Commissioner, you may not be aware but we have actually changed our electoral law to ensure that we are in compliance with the United Nations convention and therefore hundreds of... 25/01/2019 | 12:05:44 This is my third speech this week, but it is the first under your presidency, Madam President. We are in the final straight of the week now. I congratulate you on your election and wish you every success through the second year of your presidency. As was recalled by one other speaker, an earlier report on the CPT, which was very prudent, was adopted on 26 April 2017. I congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Arnaut, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, for this update on the contributions and opinions put... 24/01/2019 | 19:06:33 I thank Mr Viorel Riceard BADEA for the excellent report. We are a minority in this Assembly, talking about national minorities, but it is fortunate that we debate this sensitive issue here. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe has decided to back the report, and there are a number of amendments. The report centres on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, which is extremely useful. A hearing in Bucharest, for example, allowed those eight countries... 24/01/2019 | 17:38:52 I congratulate the rapporteur. Once again, I highlight the usefulness of these reports. In particular, I suggest you look at paragraph 21, which covers the various conventions signed by the countries and those that remain to be signed by them. This may be a good opportunity for our parliaments to move forward. I also wish to say that we respect the objectivity of this report in respect of the debates between the government and the opposition, and the time wasted. I wish to highlight some of...