25/06/2019 | 16:26:42 Thank you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank our two fellow rapporteurs for the quality and relevance of the reports. The fight against violence against women, on the one hand, and the fight for gender equality, on the other, are closely linked. If the fight for equality is not won, the fight against physical violence against women will not be won either. The Istanbul Convention was an essential step in raising awareness of the unacceptability of... 24/06/2019 | 19:08:17 Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Following Russia's annexation of Crimea, our Assembly decided to deprive the Russian delegation of its voting rights, which led to its voluntary departure. As a result, we have found ourselves in a paradoxical situation where a representative of the Russian Federation sits on the Committee of Ministers, while the Russian parliamentary delegation no longer sits in our Assembly. The Council of Europe's pan-European vocation as a forum for dialogue... 09/04/2019 | 10:55:29 I commend all our rapporteurs, and particularly my compatriot Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN, on the high quality of their work. Their reports are detailed and extremely well documented. The draft resolutions and recommendations before the Assembly are undoubtedly ambitious. Indeed, they constitute a valuable contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. We live in a time when sadly we see multilateralism being called into question and the contesting of the universality of... 23/01/2019 | 11:08:23 One of the reports before us deals with the role of public service media in the context of disinformation and propaganda. The report recommends that we rely on public media to combat information disorder. This recommendation inspires me to make three observations. First, the desire to entrust a special role to public service media in combating information disorder presupposes that these media are completely independent of political and economic power. Alas, that is not always the case. The...