27/04/2023 | 18:58:03 Thank you, Mister President, Dear Colleagues, First of all, my warm congratulations to the rapporteur. This is a very, very important report. It is important now because we are in a new round of the debate on Mercosur. Industry and powerful industry and business associations are exerting enormous pressure for this agreement to give them strength after all, even though France and Austria have spoken out against it. It should not be the case that our cows graze on La Plata, because that's what... 27/04/2023 | 17:54:31 I remember how I led the last election of the Election Observation Commission and reported in our old hemicycle. I said the people of Moldova gave themselves a feast day with this election. Finally, the bridging of all these oligarchic relations, one party no longer has to make deals with others, and Maia Sandu became president. This was a day of celebration for democracy, a day of celebration for Moldova. It is, of course, extremely regrettable that Moldova –and this is also understandable... 24/04/2023 | 15:19:06 Thank you Mr President, First of all, I would like to thank you on behalf of my group for several things that you did today. Your clear compassionate words on the earthquake victims, your words on Karamusa, and together with Mr Aleksander POCIEJ on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Thank you very much for that. If we read the report, there is also in the progress report the reference to our discussion on the Lachin Corridor. In the last few hours, this has become even more dramatic. The... 23/01/2023 | 16:25:16 At last in my mother tongue. I am not a lawyer. Nor do I need to be a lawyer to stand up for human rights and children's rights. I believe that it is very important that our Assembly not lose the idea of revenge or legal sophistry. Children must not be punished for the crimes of their parents. I am glad that Mr Pieter OMTZIGT and I have found a compromise this morning as far as the amendments are concerned. Neither of us is completely happy, that is the nature of a compromise. I ask you to... 23/01/2023 | 16:23:23 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, nearly exactly three years ago, I was standing at the exact same spot as your rapporteur on the urgent debate on the "International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones". Three years later we are discussing once more the fate of thousands of children still stranded in horrible, inhumane conditions in squalid camps in Syria and Iraq. According to Human Rights Watch, nearly 43 000 men... 14/10/2022 | 10:18:32 Thank you very much, Mr. President, on behalf of my group, I would like to sincerely thank the Chair of the Social Committee for this excellent report - which is also a hot potato - that she has tackled here. Yes, the future of work, the change in the world of work triggered by the pandemic and with Artificial Intelligence and with computerization has many, many dangers. I think the biggest danger in this area concerns women. The women who are now working at home, taking care of children on... 13/10/2022 | 19:23:22 Thank you, Mister President. I would also like to congratulate the two rapporteurs very, very warmly on this report. It shows that when a country – and Romania is obviously doing this – co‑operates with the Council of Europe and its institutions in the monitoring procedure, very, very positive reports are presented here. In particular, I would like to highlight the co‑operation with the Venice Commission and the co‑operation with GRECO. Overall, after the difficult years 2017 to 2019, where... 12/10/2022 | 17:30:30 Thank you very much, Mister President. Yes, I strongly reject the attacks on behalf of my group on the two rapporteurs. I too live only fifty kilometers away from the Hungarian border. When I open my eyes, I know what is going on. Vienna had to offer asylum to a whole university from Budapest, for the students, for the faculty and so on. The Central European University, which was in Budapest, is now in Vienna. But there are also quite a lot of artists who have no more air to breathe in... 12/10/2022 | 11:52:30 Thank you very much, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, my congratulations to the two rapporteurs. The report which is before us today shows how right and how important the decision was to turn Turkey's post-monitoring procedure into a monitoring procedure years ago. Because in a post-monitoring, a few points are still open with a country in its development. Only this report shows that it is a little bit too much. Dear Ms. Serap YAŞAR. Double standards I always hear only from... 10/10/2022 | 16:39:40 Thank you very much, Madam President. Our President of the Assembly said today at the opening: the delegations of Azerbaijan and Armenia should use this week to engage in positive exchanges and talks. I would like to fully agree with Mr Tiny KOX on this. We have to be careful; we have here in a lightning development again the death of people in warlike clashes, this time not in Nagorno-Karabakh, but carried by Azerbaijan to Armenian territory, near the towns of Goris, Sotk and Djermuk. And...