11/10/2022 | 10:37:55 Thank you very much. I would also like to offer my congratulations to Mr George PAPANDREOU for this report and for focusing our attention on the West Balkans, because, as we have already heard, there should be an alarm bell ringing for us to look at this area. It is an area that needs to be monitored in great depths. As we have heard from Mr Piero FASSINO, there are other actors waiting to play their part in this area. The most obvious one is Russia, but there is one that is even more... 24/06/2022 | 11:00:35 Thank you very much indeed. Now that means that we have reached the end of the debate and the debate is now closed. The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has presented a draft resolution [Doc. 15542] to which no amendments have been tabled. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15542. The vote is now open. The vote is now closed. And can we see the results, please? There we are. The resolution has been approved by 27 votes for, 2... 23/06/2022 | 15:56:11 Thank you very much, Mister President. And I'm extremely grateful to Mr Frank SCHWABE for this motion. Without his persistent pursuit of it, I doubt very much whether we would have seen a new Bill of Rights introduced into parliament in the UK this week, which will of course increase discussion. So, I thank him for that. I doubt, too, whether we would have seen clarification of the Government's position. So let me just read out from the document. This is produced by the Government of the UK... 23/06/2022 | 10:22:17 Thank you very much. When I first read this report, I was struck by how this is almost a classic monitoring report. It is very good, very good indeed. What I mean by that is that it has not sought to turn monitoring into a big stick with which to beat Malta, but it has set out very carefully to look at the way in which Malta is developing, and how we can provide the assistance to allow Malta to develop further. I think that that is a very important fact that we should all remember when we... 21/06/2022 | 18:46:20 Thank you very much. I too have met Yevgeniya Kara-Murza, and I want to comment on the second report, but before I do that let me thank Mr Frank SCHWABE and Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR for their two valuable reports, which had a tremendous amount of interesting information. If I turn to the second report, first, I think it's really important not to gloss over what happened to Vladimir Kara-Murza when he was arrested. It's important to go into the detail because it shows so much about how... 20/06/2022 | 15:42:31 Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. I appreciate that this report covers a very sensitive issue. I would fully agree that political parties should not exhibit any signs of racism at all. I was surprised, however, at a statement that the report mentioned where it says that racism and intolerance are rife in Europe. In spite of the efforts to eradicate them on the part of public authorities and civil society organisations, forms of intolerance including a number of different forms as well as... 27/04/2022 | 11:21:13 Thank you very much, Madam President. I am unashamedly on the side of Ukraine. The speech which has moved me the most this morning has been that excellent speech of Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, amongst many other excellent speeches this morning. He spoke with sincerity and with clarity and should have brought home to us what this war is about and what its effects are. I don't want to use faint praise to damn this report when I say that it contains many worthy items that we should concentrate on... 26/04/2022 | 10:37:13 Thank you very much, Mister President. I want to start this by looking at this not from the perspective of being in any way hostile to the EU, because I am not. But I want to start to look at this from the perspective of being pro the Council of Europe, and I hope that we are all pro the Council of Europe. I would congratulate the rapporteur on producing this report and for setting out quite quite a good balance when he addresses the issues. As he points out, the Treaty of Lisbon already... 25/04/2022 | 19:27:03 Does anyone object? If so, please ask for the floor by raising your hand. No? As there is no objection, I declare that Amendments 1 and 2 to the draft resolution have now been agreed. And now, please allow me to turn over my pages. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15494. A simple majority is required. The vote in the hemicycle and via remote voting is now open. The vote is now closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The Resolution is unanimously... 25/04/2022 | 19:26:03 Thank you very much, well, that brings this debate to a close and I would like to thank everyone who has participated for making this a very interesting and fascinating debate. Now the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has presented a draft resolution, which is document 15494, to which two amendments have been tabled and a draft recommendation to which no amendments have been tabled. So let's start with consideration of the draft resolution and then we will...