08/04/2025 | 10:46:03 Thank you, Madam President. Our colleague the rapporteur points out that the threat to our democracies comes mainly from China and Russia. The latter's war of aggression against Ukraine has led to interference aimed at destabilising the Western democracies that support Ukraine, including cyberattacks on various institutions, particularly hospitals. France experienced several such large-scale attacks on its hospitals in 2024. Faced with these threats, we urgently need to get organised. In its... 07/04/2025 | 16:52:03 Thank you, Madam President. My speech will be a little different from the previous two. First of all, I'd like to thank our colleague Ms Petra BAYR for her report. I would also like to praise the successful elections held in February 2025. They were pluralist, which testifies to Kosovo's growing democratic maturity. It is also commendable that the elections were held in accordance with the new electoral law adopted in 2023, which implements many of the Council of Europe's previous... 28/01/2025 | 16:24:08 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Mister General Secretary, I would like to ask you about violence against women. You highlighted the Istanbul Convention and emphasized that in it, the definition of rape is based on the absence of free consent, as opposed to traditional definitions of rape based on the use of force. In France, the Penal Code, which defines rape, does not include the notion of consent, which has given rise to numerous legal debates, heightened by a trial that recently rocked my... 28/01/2025 | 11:05:48 Mister Chairman, Mister President of the European Court of Human Rights, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank our colleague Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS for her report, which sheds light on the prospects for multilateralism and potential changes in the international order, at a time when the rules of international governance put in place at the end of the Second World War are being called into question. Indeed, at the end of the last century, following the collapse of the Soviet... 17/04/2024 | 20:02:30 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The last time our Assembly was able to express an opinion on the situation in Albania was in 2014. It has to be said that a great deal of progress has been made since then, which we welcome. Reforms have been undertaken to guarantee the independence and integrity of the judiciary, a major challenge for respect for the rule of law. The 2016 constitutional reform led to a complete reorganisation of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, in line with the... 16/04/2024 | 18:35:48 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, I'd like to thank our three rapporteur colleagues for their reports and opinions, which shed light on today's important debate. It's not every day that our Assembly receives a request for an opinion on a possible accession to the Council of Europe. Our vote is therefore of particular importance, even if the final decision rests with the Committee of Ministers. We are all aware of the singular nature of the examination of Kosovo's... 16/04/2024 | 16:34:13 Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by thanking our colleagues for their enlightening reports. For more than two years, the Russian Federation has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, which has flouted the principles and values of our Organisation. The latter reacted swiftly to exclude the Russian Federation, and I welcome this. Behind this geographical narrowing of our Organisation, I want to believe that we are gaining in coherence through the Reykjavík... 23/01/2024 | 17:23:45 Thank you, Madam President. Ladies and Gentlemen, While thanking our colleague Mr Piero FASSINO for the quality of his report and analysis, I would like to reiterate how shocked we were by the terrorist attack carried out by Hamas against Israel on 7 October. The barbaric acts committed are unbearable, and my thoughts go out in particular to the hostages still being held by Hamas, some of whom are dual nationals. Their immediate and unconditional release is obviously necessary. The President... 25/01/2023 | 11:06:36 Thank you, Miste President. Thank you to our colleague Mr John HOWELL for this report which highlights the severe damage that wars can cause to the environment and, consequently, to man and his health. At a time when our Assembly is mobilising in favour of the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental right, it was particularly appropriate to look at the way in which damage caused to the environment in the context of armed conflicts could be characterised and sanctioned. The war that is... 24/01/2023 | 17:37:16 Thank you, Madam President. Thank you to our rapporteur who reminds us that the Council of Europe aims to defend human rights, democracy and the rule of law. These are essential common values of Europe, the result of both humanist philosophy and the tragic experience of our internal political conflicts and wars that have ravaged our continent. The 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government must be an opportunity to continue along this path, in a context marked by the war in Ukraine, which...