26/01/2026 | 14:01:41 So, the next item on the Agenda is the election of Vice-Presidents of the Assembly. Eighteen nominations for Vice Presidents are listed in Document AS/Inf (2026) 01. If there is no request for a vote, they will be declared elected. I don't see any requests for that. So, we come to the next point, which is the appointment of committees. The candidatures for the general committees, including the Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities, the Monitoring Committee, have been published as... 26/01/2026 | 13:46:12 Thank you very much, Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS. It is also nice to see you. Distinguished ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, First and foremost, thank you very much for your trust. Be assured I will carry it humbly and respectfully. Many of you have known me since 2018, when I first became a member of this Parliamentary Assembly. And what, maybe fewer of you may know, is my path that brought me here. I was born in a family belonging to the Czech minority in Vienna. For some years... 03/10/2025 | 11:20:43 Thank you very much. Politics is made by human beings, and human beings are social beings, and ideas are shaped by exchange, by interaction and sometimes by very hard debates, of course. For these ideas, visions, we need to come together. We need to travel freely, without unnecessary administrative burdens or any other restrictions, to get a visa or anything like that. What we need is resources and no excuses. Indeed, coming together here for a week is expensive, and it needs a lot of... 02/10/2025 | 19:00:09 Thank you. I think there is no other city in the world as known for good housing policy as my hometown, Vienna, where Ms Aurora FLORIDIA also took a ride to. And that has a long tradition. It started more than 100 years ago in the so-called Red Vienna and has its traces until today. About one third of all Viennese live in city-owned flats without any profit for the city. Another third live in subsidised housing owned by co-operatives, also non-profit. And one third live in private housing... 01/10/2025 | 18:49:39 Colleagues, With this report we contribute to one of the key goals set at the Reykjavík summit to find ways to co-operate with Russian and Belarusian human rights defenders, democratic forces, free media and independent civil society. Let me add, without putting them at additional risk. The decision we take today to establish a platform for exchange with Russian democratic forces is a very, very important step. It gives the representatives the opportunity to participate in our substantive... 01/10/2025 | 11:32:34 Thank you very much. Today, I do not want to speak about numbers. I want to speak but about a person, Iryna DANYLOVYCH. Iryna DANYLOVYCH is a daughter of Crimea, a trained medical professional, a trade union leader and a journalist. Her only "crime" was to speak the truth. For this, she was kidnapped by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), locked in a basement for ten days, tortured and threatened with death. Today, she is serving nearly seven years in a Russian... 29/09/2025 | 12:08:48 Thank you, Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS. Dear colleagues, allow me to address you not only as speaker on behalf of my group, but also as the Chair of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights. You all know that originally on the agenda there was foreseen a voting on a judge in respect of Cyprus tomorrow, which disappeared from the agenda. I first want to explain why it was so. We heard in our September session the three candidates and then we had a debate and... 27/06/2025 | 10:04:38 Thank you very much, Theodoros. I want to speak about Belarus, because I think that, because of all the wars and all the severe problems we face in our own member countries, we often tend to forget about other regions in Europe, which are also very important. And we all welcomed, of course, the release of 14 prisoners recently, among them Siarhei TIKHANOVSKY, which is, of course, very good and a very good example. But we should also be aware that since the release of these 14 prisoners, 20... 26/06/2025 | 17:58:10 Thank you very much. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2024 Democracy Index, Georgia recorded the fourth-largest deterioration in democracy worldwide and the sharpest decline in the South Caucasus region. For over 200 days, ongoing protests have been taking place, demanding new elections. The government led by Georgian Dream (GD) has responded with a series of repressive measures, such as restrictive legislative changes, increased criminal prosecution and sometimes harsh... 26/06/2025 | 16:18:29 Thank you very much. Of course, due to time constraints, I will not respond to everybody, but thank you very much for this really fruitful and rich debate. And let me start with Ms Céline THIÉBAULT-MARTINEZ, also thanking you for your valuable additions and amendments to this report. And you are absolutely right, equality is not cherry on the cream. Equality is something for every day and that's exactly what makes the substance of civilisation – equality. To Ms Albana VOKSHI, I just wanted to...