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... 10/10/2022 | 12:06:03 I will perhaps say it in German, because when I express it emotionally, it is correspondingly easier for me. I think we have to be clear that this organisation – and this has also been the case in the discussions of the last few days and weeks – is at a crossroads. Human rights in general are at a crossroads worldwide, multilateralism is at a crossroads, and the ability of a united Europe to act is. In our organisation, in the Council of Europe, this question is crystallising. That's why the... 10/10/2022 | 12:03:49 Dear Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, may I join the best wishes and thanks from the President. Dear Mr President, Dear colleagues, Dear brave people of Ukraine who have to suffer a lot these minutes while we are sitting here. This, that the Ukrainians are suffering the Russian aggression against Ukraine, this was a reason why we found, let's say courage, to say we need to renew the basis maybe of this organisation. We want to go for a fourth summit. We are preparing this fourth summit, the both statutory... 23/06/2022 | 15:35:51 Mister President, Dear colleagues, first I would like to thank you that you appointed me unanimously as the first speaker in this debate. I thank you for this trust and for the support and to do this. So this discussion is in general not about the question of migration or the rights of asylum seekers. Although we have to understand that there is a big challenge for sure, there is a big challenge, because on the one hand we ask for support and to respect the Geneva Convention. And on the other...