22/06/2022 | 18:26:42 Thank you very much Mr. President, Austria is a neutral country and will remain neutral. 75% of the population and up to 85% want it that way, and it will stay that way. But that does not mean that we do not raise our voice and that we are not a great power in the field of humanitarianism and refugees. I thank all the authors of these reports for their content, and we have tried to set special accents in Austria. There was a home in Ukraine for mentally and physically handicapped children; we... 22/06/2022 | 10:29:02 Thank you, Madam Chair. On behalf of the Socialist and Green Groups, I would like to start by thanking our rapporteur very, very much for this important and stirring report but also Ms Ute Steyer from the Great Synagogue in Stockholm. Thank you very much for your words here in this Assembly. It is very important that also many young people, who, hopefully, will also read this, read her words. There has been a terrible spectre going around for years in Europe. This is what we call a spread of... 28/04/2022 | 18:11:01 Thank you, Mr President, I congratulate the two rapporteurs, first of all not only for their intensive work but also for this report — which also gives some hope for positive development. As a former Chairman of the Monitoring Committee, I was also very intensively involved with Georgia and I was also an election observer at the time when the Georgian Dream won the first time and chased away the government of Mikheil Saakashvili. Despite all this, there are still some promises to be kept. One... 28/04/2022 | 15:58:24 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to continue with Ms Nicole TRISSE. Who would have thought that we would come to a time when we have to look with great concern at a democracy fatigue? People who, if you do polls, would rather have a little dictator than a grinding democracy. That is an alarming sign, and the rapporteur also said that. That's when you have to think: how could it come to this that we have this democracy fatigue here? There are already two or three things that come... 28/04/2022 | 10:24:36 Thank you, Mr President, Dear Minister Luigi DI MAIO, I will continue with the words of thanks and congratulations. This Italian Presidency was a great moment for all of us but it was also a sad time that we have to make the exclusion of a country, of a member state, which showed such criminal aggression against them another member state. My question is we remember that in the time when the Russian Federation made the boycott we came in big financial turbulences. We talked about reducing... 26/04/2022 | 17:57:18 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, like the previous speaker, I would like to thank the rapporteur very much for this committed, comprehensive report on behalf of the Social Democrats, Greens and Democrats. This is a report that makes you think, because ultimately this report says, which is also a social fact, that poverty is inherited. It is a question of where and into which social stratum, into which social family I am born that determines education, that determines career opportunities... 25/04/2022 | 18:12:27 Thank you, Mister President, Dear colleagues, First, let me really express my congratulations to Mr Dimitri HOUBRON and to the whole Social Committee for this excellent report, which is very important and whose analyses and recommendations I fully support. And it sometimes is good if you are a long time in an institution like the Council of Europe. I remember a few years back, you will see, I asked for the floor at that time, our Assembly adopted the resolution on violence in and through the... 28/01/2022 | 10:19:11 Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, Dear colleagues, on behalf of my group, the Social Democrats and Greens and Democrats, I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the previous Chairman, Mr. Michael Aastrup JENSEN. I know the work, I was myself Chairman of the Committee. It was not easy, the last two years in times of crisis. But I would also like to thank all the rapporteurs on behalf of my group. It was work under difficult conditions and not all visits could take place. At the... 27/01/2022 | 17:52:46 Thank you Madam President, As a year-long co-rapporteur for the neighbouring country Azerbaijan, I know a lot of the situation, also in Armenia. I congratulate both rapporteurs for their report. Our group will support this report. It shows that Armenia and Georgia are two countries in the Caucasus region which changed their by-election, their political system. It shows that democracy is going on. That's what happened in Armenia in 2018. But from the beginning on, the new government had the... 27/01/2022 | 09:54:54 The January resolution was badly abused. What we concede here is that parliaments have the right to reflect on this. In this sense, I thank everyone for participating. I am also of the opinion - but it is not a political decision - that Sputnik and Sinovac will be submitted to the WHO and that these are good vaccines and will certainly be approved when the appropriate studies are done. I think it is important at the end to say, I thank all those colleagues who have already done so much...