Representative
Deputy
Partido Popular
Congreso de los Diputados
ES - 28071 - Madrid
Spain
Working language: English
10/04/2025 | 12:48:21 Thank you, President Rousopoulos. Colleagues, the committee adopted the draft resolution unanimously last January. I would like to thank Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN for his excellent work as rapporteur on this important issue, which he started some years ago, back in 2020. He closely followed the resumed negotiations between the European Union and the Council of Europe member states, which have resulted in a draft accession agreement provisionally agreed in March 2023. The committee has held several... 09/04/2025 | 19:54:24 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Colleagues, a huge amount of work has gone into this report. My friend Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU has told us a poem. Perhaps another poem of a Greek poet, Constantine CAVAFY, could serve also in this work. Ithaca. It has been a long journey and I think he has enjoyed the journey, as CAVAFY states in the poem. In his journey, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU included fact-finding visits to two states, three hearings focused on particular countries, and a wide range... 09/04/2025 | 18:36:19 Thank you, President. [spoken in French] The Committee adopted the draft resolution by overwhelming majority and the draft recommendation unanimously. This report is the fourth report from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on Russia's full scale war of aggression on Ukraine and we need to ensure accountability. We were the first to propose the idea of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in April 2022, with a report by our former colleague, Mr Aleksander POCIEJ. We... 08/04/2025 | 10:11:09 Many thanks, Madam President. I shall be speaking the language of Cervantes. Today is a happy day because today is the end of a path. Presenting a report to the plenary is a long trajectory. A report that started almost two years ago with a member of the Group of the European People's Party, Ms Valentina MARTÍNEZ, and which went down successfully with our colleague Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA. Today is a happy day also, because the Council of Europe has a very strong instrument, a powerful... 29/01/2025 | 16:53:38 Thank you, President. I want to begin with congratulations – Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA, also the secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Ms Petra BAYR. The times were not easy. The political heat very high, the expectations extreme. And you follow the mandate of this institution: to promote democracy, human rights and always the rule of law. We are living in troubled times. The invasion of Ukraine is only one chapter in the struggle between the dark forces of...
02/04/2025 | Doc. 16141 | Written declaration Political persecution of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the erosion of democracy in Türkiye 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16108 | Motion for a resolution Role of the Parliamentary Assembly and National Parliaments in implementing the outcome of the 2024 Summit of the Future 26/06/2024 | Doc. 16021 | Motion for a resolution Support for political negotiations to enforce exchange and release of prisoners of war 26/06/2024 | Doc. 16020 | Motion for a resolution Journalists matter: the need to step up efforts to liberate Ukrainian journalists held in captivity by the Russian Federation 31/01/2024 | Doc. 15922 | Motion for a resolution Addressing the financial exclusion of Latin American immigrants
10/04/2025 | Doc. 16150, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16153, vote on the draft text for resolution The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) “Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia” 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16126, vote on the draft text for resolution Legal aspects of the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16128, vote on the draft text for resolution Interconnections between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16129, vote on the draft text for recommendation Strengthening relations between the Council of Europe and Latin America