28/09/2021 | 12:13:00 Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to express my satisfaction at the fact that socio-economic inequalities are being discussed today in our Assembly. I would like to thank and congratulate our colleague, Mrs Selin SAYEK BÖKE, for her excellent report, which proposes several interesting areas for improvement. Europe is a developed, technologically advanced region of the world with a high development index, but there are still major... 22/06/2021 | 19:21:36 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I would like to begin by congratulating our fellow rapporteur, Baroness Doreen Massey, on her excellent report on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the rights of the child. During the months of the pandemic, our children have been confronted with all sorts of events that could affect them. I am thinking, of course, of the death of relatives, which is a painful stage in a child's life. They have had to face, in some circumstances, isolation or... 21/04/2021 | 17:33:30 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, on behalf of the EPP Group, I would like to congratulate our fellow rapporteur, Ms Martine WONNER, on her excellent report and also thank the draftswoman, Ms Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO, for her very relevant additions. Discrimination against people with chronic and long-term illnesses is a serious and worrying problem, unacceptable in the 21st century. These diseases affect one third of the population and are causing increasing morbidity as... 27/01/2021 | 10:41:53 Thank you Chair, Ladies and Gentlemen Members of Parliament, Dear Colleagues, Allow me first of all, on behalf of the PPE Group, to congratulate our fellow rapporteur, Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN, on her excellent report. I will not go back over the terrible human, economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let us simply remember that, to date, this pandemic has infected almost 100 million people and caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide, including more than 400 000 in... 20/11/2020 | 16:25:45 Does it work now? Yes, flawless. Thank you, Mr President. Madam rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, thank you for this report. The 21st Century must finally be the century of equality between men and women, but gender equality is far from being a reality today. Inequalities remain, whether at school, at work, in politics or in families. Violence against women is still as high as ever; violations... 31/01/2020 | 12:23:12 Thank you, Mr President, I would like to thank the respective rapporteurs of these two texts for the quality of their reports and the relevance of the draft recommendations and draft resolutions. The debate before us today touches on an important subject, prohibiting and combating the assets of the human body, its organs, cells and tissues. The vast majority of organ sellers and cell donors come from the poorest segments of society. They are cooperating only because of their difficult or even... 30/01/2020 | 17:49:04 Mr Speaker, dear colleagues, I would like to thank the respective rapporteurs for these two texts. The debate before us concerns in particular two sadly topical issues: the disappearance of refugee or migrant children in Europe and trafficking in human beings. This is a serious and worrying problem. However, we focus mainly on the children's stay in Europe and do not include their journey to Europe. That's unfortunate. This trip is dangerous, even deadly. Refugee and migrant children did not... 27/01/2020 | 15:13:19 Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, The organization by a State of a legislative election is one of the thermometers of its good democratic health and its respect for fundamental freedoms. The observation report on the early parliamentary elections of November 2019 in Belarus, which we are examining today, finds that it does not meet all democratic commitments and international electoral standards. When I visited Belarus as part of the Assembly's delegation to observe... 03/10/2019 | 17:04:52 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Rapporteur, Dear colleagues, Because this concerns the intimate sphere, the woman's body, obstetric and gynecological violence have too often been overshadowed, too often brushed under the carpet. Yet this violence, these disrespectful acts exist. Women should not have to endure violent or disrespectful childbirth or gynecological examinations, sometimes associated with infantilising, sexist, violent acts performed without consent. The phenomenon is still... 02/10/2019 | 18:11:11 Thank you, Mr. President. Madam rapporteur, thank you for your report. Terrorism is a deadly ideology that has struck in Nice, Paris, Utøya, Moscow, London, Madrid and many other cities. Whenever a human being is wounded or killed in an attack, it is a part of our humanity that is bruised. I think we all agree here that international cooperation on terrorism is essential, because terrorism knows no borders. There is a need to consolidate and extend the international legal framework for the...