Representative
Member of the Riigikogu
Estonian Reform Party
Riigikogu
EE - 15165 - Tallinn
Estonia
Working language: English
17/04/2024 - Session PACE calls for sanctions against persons on the ‘Kara-Murza list’ 01/12/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Hearing on targeted sanctions against the persons responsible for human rights violations inflicted upon Vladimir Kara-Murza 27/11/2023 - Monitoring Hungary should submit the bill on the ‘defence of national sovereignty’ to the Venice Commission, PACE monitors say 12/10/2022 - Session PACE votes to begin monitoring of Hungary over rule of law and democracy issues 14/09/2022 - Monitoring Long-standing rule of law and democracy issues in Hungary ‘remain largely unaddressed’, says PACE committee
30/09/2024 | 15:56:51 Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Iulian, for a nice progress report. I would like to agree with you that perhaps it's not really proper to call it a "progress report", it's a little ambitious but an "activity report". We have, indeed, done some good work here, but a lot remains not done. Now, Ian, thank you for your service, as they say. On the one hand, I do agree with you that maybe we are not heard enough, and maybe some of the reports that we pass here, sometimes unanimously, do not have a... 17/04/2024 | 16:02:13 Thank you, President, Dear colleagues, as you heard this afternoon we discussed three reports dealing with different aspects of the war on democracy waged by Vladimir Putin's criminal regime, and I am not using some weird metaphor, but this is actually language from one of the reports that we have on hand today. My own contribution to this debate relates to the persecution of our colleague, our friend Vladimir Kara-Murza and the need to hold to account all participants of his persecution. But... 26/01/2023 | 10:50:28 Thank you, Mister President. First I would like to congratulate Mr Damien COTTIER for this very important report. We are quite pleased with the outcome. The Russian-escalated war of aggression against Ukraine has lasted for almost a year and it feels like a long time, but it's not. For anyone between Russia and Germany this is unfortunately a regular occurrence. Because there is a tradition of Russian imperial aggressive wars against its neighbours going back to at least 1918. It's at least a... 12/10/2022 | 17:11:10 Thank you Chair. Dear Colleagues, After the previous debate I'm happy to say that thankfully our report doesn't cover anything regarding human organs trafficking. That makes me already quite relieved. But to be serious, I as well would like to thank our Hungarian hosts, who received us in Budapest, for the frank conversations we had with them. As you will notice reading the report, there remains a quite a number of issues where we agreed to disagree with the Hungarian government. However... 11/10/2022 | 19:57:41 Dear Chair, Dear Colleagues, Unfortunately, we have, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and me personally, we have quite a bit of problems with this report not because we do not support the freedom of movement and not because we don't support human rights and liberal values. Let's start with the actual title of the report. Now the resolution, it says, "Misuse of the Schengen Information system by Council of Europe member States as a politically-motivated sanction" as if it's...
16/03/2024 | Doc. 15939 | Report Sanctions against persons on the "Kara-Murza list" 26/09/2022 | Doc. 15619 | Report The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Hungary
08/10/2024 | Doc. 16062 | Motion for a resolution Strengthening freedom of expression: an imperative for the consolidation and development of democratic societies 03/10/2024 | Doc. 16058 | Written declaration Elections in Georgia – alarming developments 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15962 | Written declaration Appeal to the United States Congress 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15970 | Written declaration For the release of the hostages held in Gaza 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15992 | Written declaration 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and сommemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people
03/10/2024 | Doc. 16028, vote on the draft text for resolution Commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor – Ukraine once again faces the threat of genocide 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16040, vote on the draft text for resolution The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16050, vote on the draft text for recommendation Missing persons, prisoners of war and civilians in captivity as a result of the war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16050, vote on the draft text for resolution Missing persons, prisoners of war and civilians in captivity as a result of the war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine 25/06/2024 | Doc. 15993, vote on the draft text for resolution Protecting women human rights defenders in Europe