Representative
Member of the Riigikogu
Estonian Reform Party
Riigikogu
EE - 15165 - Tallinn
Estonia
Working language: English
15/11/2024 - Monitoring PACE monitors to visit Hungary 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
29/01/2025 | 17:00:51 Thank you. "I am Georgian, therefore I am European" [spoken in Georgian]. This is what then-Georgian speaker of Parliament Mr Zurab ZHVANIA declared in this very hemicycle upon Georgia's accession to the Council of Europe in 1999. This belief, this is a declaration of identity. And this has been the cornerstone for generations of Georgians who have struggled for their country's freedom, to free their country from Russian imperial domination attempts: Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia and now... 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...
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
23/04/2025 | Doc. 16098 | Written declaration Condemning the stolen election in Georgia and supporting the country in its European path 15/04/2025 | Doc. 16160 | Motion for a resolution Facilitating economic recovery and resilience of Ukraine: from voluntary returns to enhanced co-operation and investment 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16159 | Motion for a resolution The urgent need to ensure the survival of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16156 | Written declaration The need to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minority groups in Syria 12/03/2025 | Doc. 16127 | Motion for a resolution Regulating social networks: a democratic imperative
08/04/2025 | Doc. 16131, vote on the draft text for recommendation Foreign interference a threat to democratic security in Europe 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16131, vote on the draft text for resolution Foreign interference a threat to democratic security in Europe 30/01/2025 | Doc. 16105, vote on the draft text for resolution The urgent need for free and fair elections in Belarus 30/01/2025 | Doc. 16106, vote on the draft text for resolution European commitment to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16104, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia