22/04/2026 | 17:37:45 Thank you, Madam President. I will speak in Greek. Every day, refugees from the LGBTQI community are requesting asylum. They do this because they've had to leave their countries of origin. They're requesting asylum, so as not to be sent back home and be killed. We are a space of justice and freedom; we have a duty to act as a model when it comes to democracy. In Greece, the last time the death penalty was carried out was in 1972. Yesterday, we celebrated the seventh anniversary of the end of... 22/04/2026 | 11:38:37 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, Allow me to start my speech with two proposals. I totally agree with Ms Catia POLIDORI. We have to act, not to talk. We need measures, not only reports. And we have to convince our countries to be more active in this terrible issue for humanity. The second proposal is that we need an observatory as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a space about what happened for each country every day. The third proposal – in memory of the dead... 21/04/2026 | 17:56:33 Thank you, Madam President. Allow me to speak in Greek. Thank you. Someone said famously that we need Gods. We all need Gods and that our Gods know everything. Now, what many people do not know, is that everybody should have a right to freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is a very fundamental tenet of our democracies. And in our countries I think we have outstanding examples of coexistence between Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists – let's not forget the atheists. Freedom of... 29/01/2026 | 19:28:13 Thank you, Madam President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, We welcome this report on behalf of the European People's Party and we congratulate the rapporteurs. However, what is very interesting here for the day after is the observations that have been made. And I'd like to start with what Mr Piero FASSINO has just said. The democracy of North Macedonia has signed a treaty, the Prespa Agreement, with a partner country, that is Greece. It is a member of the Council of Europe and the... 29/01/2026 | 16:58:40 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, Dear former Commissioner Ms Helena DALLI, thank you once again for your inspirational speech. And I think we are very lucky here because we have teenagers that look to us because we are here. Not for us, we are here for them. And I think it is crucial that the report before us today aims to safeguard the freedom, dignity, personality and self-determination of individuals who are at risk at becoming victims of conversion practices... 28/01/2026 | 18:48:02 Thank you Mister President. I'll speak in Greek again. This is a very interesting report, which provides guidance. As member states, we really need to include education in all of our policies. How can we achieve this? Well, I think that the training of teachers is extremely important, in a society free from exclusion, if that's what we want to achieve. But today, we are seeing racism and anti-Semitism gaining ground. We really need teaching staff who will be, if you like, the second parents... 28/01/2026 | 18:18:17 Thank you, Madam President. After English, French and Spanish, I will speak in Greek. Thank you. First and foremost, allow me to congratulate our rapporteur. Ladies and gentlemen, What we have before us is a very important document. We're talking about a UN Convention, we're talking about a Recommendation, the recommendation made by the World Health Organization as well. Today, what they tell us is that really this subject matter, which we are addressing here today in the Chamber, is very... 27/01/2026 | 19:36:41 Thank you, Madam President. First of all, I would like to thank our colleagues for this report and also it was very interesting in the speeches of Mr Piero FASSINO and Mr George LOUCAIDES, because they started to talk about what happened for the future of Bosnia Herzegovina. And I think that we have to commit here to help Bosnia Herzegovina to the road to the rules of the Council of Europe, and of course, in the direction of the European Union. You know better than me, Bosnia and Herzegovina... 26/01/2026 | 16:48:55 Thank you. Dear President, dear colleagues, The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, as you know, has had the status of 'partner for democracy' with the Assembly since 2014. In its Resolution 1948, the Assembly underlined that progress in taking forward reforms with the prime aim of this partnership and should constitute the benchmark for assessing its efficiency. Against this backdrop, the Assembly stressed the importance of free and fair elections as a cornerstone of a genuine democracy and expressed... 01/10/2025 | 16:49:36 Thank you Madam President, I will speak in Greek. I'm very pleased to have some young people amongst us today. This report, and I'd like to congratulate the rapporteur, shows something which is simple, but in many countries is not a given. We have the repression of the protest marchers, of the young people. Young people who take to the streets for better jobs, to create families, to find where to live and to have more democracy than the one we've already created. This report is not for us, it...