20/06/2023 | 14:28:50 Thank you very much, Mister President, dear Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, all of you. I am absolutely delighted that the performance of the Volny Chor can take part here, happening here in the chamber of the European Parliament. But now it's our chamber this time. It's, for sure, the chamber of human rights, rule of law, and democracy in Europe. May I say that I was able to meet some of you for the first time during the German unification events last year. I was very impressed by your work. I... 19/06/2023 | 16:01:33 That is very nice, Mister President, but it is not necessary. I think everything was said already. In the end, we do not have to look into the regional situation although there was some recommendation. For sure, we see the resulting situation of Türkiye and some other countries as well. It is difficult and we really refer to the earthquake situation and there were a lot of challenges in the country. We can speak about the refugee situation but this is not our job here. Our job here is to... 19/06/2023 | 15:16:20 Okay, this is not possible in three minutes. What should I say in three minutes, Mister President? These are very important elections with two rounds for each round, maybe for each round three minutes, no? So, Mister President, anyhow I had the honour to lead the Election Observation Mission of the Assembly in Türkiye on the 14 May and the second round on the 28 May. I would like to thank the authorities for inviting us to the country. I really thank the Turkish delegation, Mr Ahmet YILDIZ... 26/04/2023 | 16:13:50 Mister President, although I usually very often agree with my distinguished colleague from the Group of the European People's Party, this time I don't. I understand the concerns. All of us had concerns that there was a mistake yesterday, there was a mistake in the alphabetical order. In the way we solved it, we overcame the situation about the secrecy. I'm able to do it here. Maybe you can explain how to organise [things so] that we can have a secret vote. Later on, we can maybe evaluate it... 25/04/2023 | 16:22:47 Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, This summit is a unique opportunity. It is a government summit - but it is also clear; this summit comes at our initiative. It is our substantive contributions that shape this summit, and we end up with the youth organisation, the human rights organisation, and Congress in our backpacks. I want to thank again - already the Irish presidency, which prepared the whole thing, and then the Icelandic presidency, which managed to bring almost all the heads of... 26/01/2023 | 12:27:19 Madam Prime Minister, Thank you very much for the excellent preparation of the Summit in Reykjavik, and thank you very much for including our Parliamentary Assembly in the preparation of the Summit. We are happy – some of us – to join you and to come to questions. To ask about the Summit, you mentioned that you want to bring this organisation back, you want to strengthen the core of this organisation. What do you intend to do to make countries here fulfil the judgments of the Court, for... 25/01/2023 | 17:16:27 Thank you very much, Mister President. On behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, I would like to thank the three rapporteurs, Ms Zita GURMAI, Ms Petra STIENEN, and Ms Margreet De BOER for their very excellent, important reports. I would like to quote from Ms Petra STIENEN's report: "the Assembly recognises the responsibility of men and boys in preventing and stopping gender-based violence against women and girls and urges them to be proactive in this regard." This is why I... 24/01/2023 | 17:05:58 Mister Chairman, Thank you, also, for my part, to Ms Fiona O'LOUGHLIN for this excellent report, which both represents in depth what we have had in terms of important debates over the last few months, and also makes clear in breadth that there is just a great deal of support here in this Assembly. I want to remind you again that, in fact, this journey that we have come to on the conclusion started a long time ago. It was Mr Michele NICOLETTI, who was sitting there in the President's chair... 12/10/2022 | 17:49:25 Mr President Ladies and gentlemen I don't know whether I should be appalled by the speech of the two Hungarian colleagues and what they have said here and how seriously they take what we are discussing here - or whether I should actually be pleased because they are tearing the mask off their own faces, so to speak. Because they're making it clear that they're actually relatively uninterested in this. And I don't know where the left actually starts with them or whether they are all communists... 12/10/2022 | 16:30:53 Dear Mister President, Dear Mister Prime Minister, To be honest I've been here for 10 years, but I'm a little bit speechless because this is not possible for you to speak here for 50 minutes and at the end not give us the opportunity to have a debate. I think he was familiar with the rules here, and with our respect this very problematic. But we are a democratic organisation; it's not a problem. If you want to have a debate, I think we can invite you to come again into a committee or whatever...