25/01/2021 | 17:47:48 Mister President, Dear Colleagues, The report of the Monitoring Committee we are discussing today gives an overview of the monitoring procedure and the post-monitoring dialogue over the past year. It was a year that will be remembered in the history of the Council of Europe for the difficult situation caused by the pandemic. This fact cannot be ignored, because it affects either the work of national parliaments and governments or the Assembly. Since this report is a framework report, it would... 27/06/2019 | 16:52:58 Thank you, Madam President, Dear colleagues, The Assembly's monitoring and post-monitoring dialogue procedure aims to establish a dialogue between the national delegation and the monitoring committee. Like any dialogue, the conversation should be held between two or more people. Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more evidence that the committee is insisting that its views be implemented unconditionally without a thorough examination of the country's arguments. This is, I believe, the...