24/06/2021 | 11:42:14 Thank you very much, Mister President, Thank you Mister Minister and our colleague Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ, who introduced this debate. Migration is one of the main challenges of our century and we can see that the trend for international and internal displacement is on the rise. According to UNHCR figures for the year 2020, there are nearly 80 million people who are in forced displacement in the world, internal displacement or international displacement. 80 million people, that's the... 23/06/2021 | 12:46:08 Thank you, Mister President. The scourge of domestic violence spares no country. In Switzerland, it causes the death of one woman every two and a half weeks and affects 26 000 children every year. Mister President, as you pointed out earlier, the Istanbul Convention is an instrument, a powerful instrument with its four pillars for combating this shame. The Swiss Government presented its first implementation report last Friday. It describes how the Istanbul Convention has triggered a new... 22/06/2021 | 12:53:15 Thank you, Mister President, we support the principle sought by the Committee on Social Affairs, namely to list the fact that there are other criteria for illegal discrimination that may come into play than simply the question of ability to pay. The problem is more of a legal nature. It seems to us that the way in which this list is formulated, which is not complete and does not correspond to the wording found in certain international legal instruments, in particular Article 14 of the... 22/06/2021 | 12:44:26 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for this debate. There has been a great deal of substance and many extremely interesting elements that have been brought up in the discussion and which, in essence, to a large extent – and I would also like to thank you for this – confirm the orientations of the report and the draft resolution of the committee. This balance, this search for balance between what is, on the one hand – I believe it was Mrs Nicole Trissé who used this term – an aid to... 22/06/2021 | 11:31:54 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, The Covid-19 pandemic is still with us. However, a major change has taken place: vaccination, which is promising because vaccinated people are much less likely to be infected or to become seriously ill, and much less likely to transmit the virus. It is therefore to be hoped that those who have been vaccinated will be exempted from certain restrictions. As summer started yesterday – although we cannot see that today with the weather in Strasbourg... 21/06/2021 | 18:33:34 Thank you, Madam President. I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, for the work he has done. His report has the merit of reminding us of the rules of freedom of expression, especially for politicians. However, it also points out the limits and what it does not allow, including incitement to hatred or violence or the overthrow of the constitutional order by violence or illegal means. The Council of Europe is a guarantor of democracy, and our Assembly is therefore right... 21/06/2021 | 17:14:45 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Minister, On behalf of the ALDE Group, we would like to congratulate Hungary on taking over the Presidency and wish you a successful Presidency. On 11 June, European media ministers discussed the decline in the safety of journalists, recalling that violence against the media was an attack on democracy. They called on the Council of Europe to prepare the ground for national action plans on the safety of journalists and to lead a European campaign to protect... 22/04/2021 | 11:31:57 Thank you, Mr President. We propose to return to the rapporteur's original text with this amendment. The issue of Mr Navalny's intoxication and its causes is an important issue, but it is the subject of another procedure and a separate report to be produced at a later date. It is a matter, it must be admitted, that is less urgent than the issue that concerns us today. It is therefore unnecessary from our perspective, and even counterproductive, to mix these two processes. The delegation of... 22/04/2021 | 10:30:43 Thank you, Mr President. This is an important debate. It is important because, although it has already been debated, this is the first time that our Assembly will take a position on the situation of Mr Navalny. It is important because what is being asked of the Russian Federation is essential to the principles of our organisation. It is not a matter of interpreting a situation today, of exchanging opinions; we do that regularly and it is important at other times. Today we are at another stage... 21/04/2021 | 19:34:00 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to take into account the recommendations of the Venice Commission and to emphasise what we said earlier in the report and what several speakers have said today about the importance of implementing this opinion in the context of the ongoing reforms of the public prosecutor's office, so as not to favour the efficiency of the public prosecutor's office to the detriment of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary. So, as this debate is extremely...