11/04/2025 | 10:05:27 Thank you very much, Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to use this debate to talk about the difficulties we had in the recent elections in Germany. Many of them have been mentioned over the course of the week. I have also often been asked, "What happened?", and I will now try to present this in a somewhat systematic way. There are three problem areas, I'll call them, in the early elections that we had in Germany on 23 February. Early elections, also with a massively... 10/04/2025 | 12:18:46 Dear colleagues, The Lisbon Treaty, the EU's basic treaty, was adopted in 2007 and came into force in 2009. This treaty states that the EU will accede to the Convention on Human Rights. It doesn't say it could join, should join. It says it will join, and that should have happened in 2009 or in the following years. But it still hasn't, and that is indeed a scandal. Why is that important? There are also communitised institutions such as Frontex, Europol, the ECB and others that cannot be traced... 10/04/2025 | 11:20:35 Thank you very much, Mister President, We are talking today about the situation in Georgia and the fact that there is no Georgian delegation here. We took a decision in January to sanction the Georgian delegation and to question the credentials in January. They then left, and my group voted against it. We said in the debate that this Parliamentary Assembly had reached an impasse, and I believe we have reached that impasse. The background to this situation is the elections on 26 October. I was... 09/04/2025 | 10:23:45 Thank you very much, Mister President. Ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to congratulate Mr Frank SCHWABE for his work in this area. I have to say that I have been a member of this Assembly since January 2010, so I was an active member here at the height of the corruption scandal. And even as a new Member of Parliament, it was difficult for me to see through what was actually going on in the background. There were a lot of decisions back then where I scratched my head, so to speak, and... 07/04/2025 | 17:31:49 Thank you very much, Madam President, I will speak in German. First of all, at the request of Ms Petra BAYR, who is no longer able to respond, I would like to thank the members of the Election Commission in Kosovo and the Secretariat for their work and for the many questions and critical comments that have been addressed to Ms Petra BAYR. Overall, I would say that this debate also shows - as does the fact that we have had so many requests for urgent and current affairs this week - how... 07/04/2025 | 11:55:19 Let's see, I will be here in June as well. We will still have the situation of a possible recount in Germany. So we don't know exactly because it was extremely narrow. But first, let me thank you for granting me the honour of presenting the progress report. The progress report generally has a lot of technical references in our report, which is presented to you. But, as well, it is a kind of general debate we have at the beginning of every week, what happens in Europe. And I think the big... 27/01/2025 | 16:58:47 Thank you very much, Mister President, A lot has indeed happened in the last three months. We have had many controversial elections. We have had elections in Georgia, and I will say something about that in a moment. We also had an election in Romania, a presidential election that was cancelled by the Constitutional Court. As the Presidential Committee, we decided in December that there would be a statement from the Venice Commission, which is now also available online. I think this is very... 02/10/2024 | 15:47:28 Thank you very much, Mister President, Dear Heike ENGELHARDT, First of all, thank you very much for the report. I would like to say, on behalf of the European United Left, that we support this report. The debate on the immunity of MEPs is sometimes misunderstood by the public. Let me remind you that immunity was fought for by parliaments in the 19th century, so to speak, because the monarchist executive, which was often still in place at the time, often abused the system and arrested MPs... 02/10/2024 | 10:13:07 Thank you, Madam President, Thank you, Madam President, I will speak in German. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur, dear Sunna, for this great report, for the work you have done. And I think it is a very good result that has emerged. And I hope that we will be able to adopt it later. I would also like to welcome Julian and Stella ASSANGE, who are here - it's great that you've come, because I think it's also very good that we're having this debate here. I have often said in... 01/10/2024 | 12:29:14 Thank you very much, Mister President. Mister Secretary General, I am delighted. I would also like to congratulate you on behalf of the group here. I believe that people rightly have the impression that we now have a strong Secretary General, and that is what this Organisation needs. At the beginning of your speech, you emphasised the importance of the Court of Justice. As you know, we have the problem that judgments, Osman KAVALA's and Selahattin DEMIRTA'ş, are not being implemented in...