01/10/2026 | 17:31:14 Madam Chair, Just imagine! Imagine that someone came to arrest you. Not for theft. Not for violence. But for defending the right to love whoever you choose. The right to be who you are. This is not a nightmare. This is Türkiye. Today. A member state of the Council of Europe. Since 12 September, dozens of activists, community leaders and journalists have been arrested. The name of the operation? “My family is safe”. What a cruel irony. In the name of the family, other families are being torn... 01/10/2026 | 16:29:56 Thank you, Mr President. A question. Will artificial intelligence (AI) take your job away from you? Personally, I think you’re being told two different stories. The first: robots are coming and millions of jobs will disappear. The second: AI will sort everything out, as if by magic. I believe both are wrong. Look at history. The steam engine, electricity, computing… None of them has made human labour disappear. All of them have profoundly transformed it. But whenever the benefits of progress... 24/06/2026 | 19:12:34 Thank you, Mister President, Dear colleagues, Allow me first of all to thank the rapporteurs for the high standard of their work. Access to sufficient, healthy and sustainable food is not a variable to be adjusted; rather, it is a fundamental right. In particular, it requires us to reaffirm the central role of parliaments in regulating our food systems. Food sovereignty cannot exist without parliamentary sovereignty. It is our parliaments that must set the rules of the game, rather than the... 24/06/2026 | 17:05:17 Thank you, Mr President. Our colleague Mr Pablo HISPÁN, whom I would like to thank, drew on Cicero’s ‘hecatylinaire’ to emphasise just how much we are now calling on the Azerbaijani regime to finally respond to the criticism and to stop trying our patience. For my part, I shall begin with a definition of dictatorship by Hannah ARENDT. “Dictatorship,” said Hannah ARENDT in the aftermath of the Second World War, “is exercised not only in the political sphere, but in all spheres, including the... 24/06/2026 | 16:21:19 Thank you very much, Mister President. My dear colleagues, we are holding this debate against a difficult backdrop. Following the non-ratification of the Azerbaijani delegation in 2024, Azerbaijan chose not to submit its delegation’s credentials for two consecutive years: 2025 and 2026. Many members of this Assembly, myself included, have been declared persona non grata in that country. Nevertheless, our responsibility, the responsibility of this Assembly, does not disappear when dialogue... 29/01/2026 | 11:15:27 Thank you very much, Madam President, What is at stake in Greenland today goes far beyond a simple territorial issue. It is a clear attempt to upset the international balance, to test the solidity of the law and the determination of European democracies. Because the situation in Greenland reveals a clear risk. The risk that the Arctic will become an area where the balance of power replaces international norms and where strategic interests and even private financial interests take precedence... 28/01/2026 | 17:07:38 Thank you, Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, I wonder how some people here can still claim that the Palestinians deserved the disastrous fate that Israel's extreme right-wing government has meted out to them. How is it possible to deny the reality of 70 thousand deaths, most of them civilians. And these civilians include women, the elderly and children. Since the ceasefire, according to UNICEF, two Palestinian children are still dying every day. Every single day. And to say that is to be... 27/01/2026 | 17:34:57 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Thank you, dear colleagues. As an elected representative in my constituency, I often meet people who say to me: "But is the war in Ukraine our war? Why should we continue to support Ukraine? It's a long way away. Shouldn't we support Vladimir Putin? Shouldn't we be pushing Ukraine to give Vladimir Putin some territory in order to put an end to this conflict?" I tell them every time, my dear fellow citizens, that this is our war. It is Europe's war that others are... 02/10/2025 | 19:27:43 Thank you, Madam Chairman. This is a surprise, I thought we were finishing at 7:25pm. But here we are, I'm ready. I would like to thank my colleague Mr Stefan SCHENNACH for this clear, ambitious and deeply humane text, which is so much like him. It reminds us of something essential: health is not a privilege, but a right. And this right must be guaranteed to everyone, everywhere, without exception. Yes, this right is still too often undermined, particularly in the most rural areas, and I can... 02/10/2025 | 12:00:58 Thank you, Mister President. This morning, I really cannot hide my anger, because last night Israel once again deliberately violated international law by capturing the crew of the Gaza-bound flotilla. It violated the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, it violated the United Nations Charter, and it violated the Geneva Convention by criminalising humanitarians, journalists and all the young people on board, who are teaching us all a valuable lesson. These young people on board...