11/04/2019 | 17:51:36 I congratulate our rapporteur Ms Petra De SUTTER on the work that has gone into this report and on her presentation. I wish to clarify certain issues. We should agree that Greece extended a warm welcome to the enormous influx of migrants in 2015. One grandmother on Lesbos was put forward for the Nobel peace prize, and the Pope thanked her personally. What has happened since then? Why are the living conditions of the migrants so bad? We need to look at the reasons and work out why the... 09/04/2019 | 19:04:15 The report, the rapporteur and those who have spoken have made it clear that women started to enjoy rights when they were able to cast their votes. Men became full-fledged citizens following the French revolution, but at that time women were excluded from any form of political participation. Today, however, we still live in a patriarchal system. Politics is often a male stamping ground. When I was a Minister with responsibility for migration and refugees, a wave of migrants were arriving in... 09/04/2019 | 17:18:23 My name is difficult to pronounce. I am from Greece and I will speak in Greek. (The speaker continued in Greek). Colleagues, it seems to me that this initiative by the European Union is an important one. There is of course an issue with overlap, and we need to be careful about that. We need to know who exactly is in a position to create this mechanism. Who is best placed to establish a mechanism that will allow us to protect democracies? It would have to be a country that is democratic, of...