23/06/2021 | 17:24:15 Yes. Thank you very much. The report includes a lot of important recommendations. Among others it focuses on role models and on the visibility of people from under-represented and marginalised groups. If you can see that people from such groups have success, if you can see that they really have a say and they really can make a difference, that might encourage other persons from these groups also to get active, to get involved, to have their voices heard and to participate actively in all... 23/06/2021 | 12:22:08 If you own a real precious treasure, the gold standards of legal protection of women from all forms of violence. If this treasure doesn't get less, if you share it but in contrast it becomes more potential if you apply it to more people, a real precious and mighty tool to protect women from violence, the more signatures, ratifications and implementations there are you consider your self really lucky. We all would unveil ourselves unintelligent if we would not promote and advocate in favour of... 22/06/2021 | 09:55:42 Thank you very much. Question time with ministers has the structural flaw that it is no longer possible to respond in any way to ministers' answers, however unsatisfactory, incorrect or inadequate they may have been. Yesterday, I used my 30 seconds with the Hungarian Foreign Minister to present a case. I want to use today's discussion on media freedom to do so and to have a little more time to do so – a case where two Austrian journalists are researching the political situation in Austria's... 21/06/2021 | 17:02:00 Thank you very much, Mr Rik DAEMS. Mr Minister, when an Austrian journalist is posing three written questions to a Hungarian member of th European Parliament, it can happen that the fact that the journalist is doing her job ends up at the public Hungarian TV, where in five broadcasts, the journalist is denigrated as incompetent, amateur, spreading fake news about Hungary. And it can happen that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is not calming down this artificial conflict but is fuelling the... 21/06/2021 | 16:39:38 Yes I do. Thank you very much. I would like to respond to some selected issues. When Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK from Ukraine applauds Liechtenstein for ratification of the Istanbul Convention I very much hope that we can be the next to congratulate Ukraine for the ratification. We very much appreciate the steps forward you are doing in the signing and ratification of the Convention. The GREVIO was mentioned as a the body who monitors the implementation. I also can inform you that GREVIO will do a... 21/06/2021 | 12:04:27 Thank you very much, Ms President. Dear colleagues, this progress report covers the time span from 26 April to 18 June. From my point of view it's really two months of concern. The pandemic is not over yet and the distribution of treatment and care is very uneven even globally. The policies of some countries, especially richer European countries, prove that there is a priority for profits of the pharmaceutical industry over global health. That's the opposite of solidarity. That's the opposite... 21/04/2021 | 16:48:27 Thank you very much. Last week we debated about and voted on Ms Thorhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR's report on the situation of the Crimean Tatars. You mentioned the obstacles you have to monitor the human rights situation in Crimea. What must happen for a very well performed human rights evaluation and monitoring can happen and can be performed in Crimea? My second question is on the Istanbul Convention which at the moment is misused as an object of proxy dispute about values ignoring what is its... 21/04/2021 | 12:10:23 Thank you, Mr Chairperson. Viktar Barushka is a political prisoner from Belarus whom I have sponsored, as previous speakers have done for other political prisoners. Viktar is 32 years old, a businessman and he was arrested by the police on 18 October 2020 on his way home after a demonstration on a Sunday when he ran away from the police. He was beaten after his arrest, abused, including being raped with a baton and had to spend 12 days in intensive care afterwards. He, Viktar, is accused of... 20/04/2021 | 15:49:12 Thank you very much, Mr Kimmo KILJUNEN. The ability to collect a state tax for the financing of public services and services of general interest – to collect it without gaps – is an important democratic function of a state. It is also a practical redistribution. Many multinationals in the digital economy earn billions in Europe, but they hardly pay any taxes. For years, Apple has shifted profits from all over Europe to Ireland via subsidiaries, and in some cases paid only 0.005 percent in... 20/04/2021 | 10:43:32 Good morning, Chancellor, Joe Biden is probably right when he says that the U.S. is back on the constructive international stage after four - let us put it diplomatically - after four rather difficult years. The announcement that U.S. foreign policy is to be guided by a human rights-based policy also gives hope, I think, of creating a new axis, a new alliance, a transatlantic alliance, between the U.S., Canada, and Europe in dealing with very many international crises. I'm thinking, for...