29/09/2026 | 10:24:04 Madam President, Secretary General, I'm sure you know the Protestant Christian motto: "the Church must always be reformed" [spoken in Latin]. Reform is needed always and reform is not a bad thing. To make the Council of Europe visible and influential globally and externally is good and I think we could encourage that process. Obviously, there are procedural and content-wise preconditions to this. Procedurally, I would like to underline its importance. If we look at the Council of Europe from... 28/09/2026 | 12:24:25 Thank you, President. Dear Secretary General, Rapporteurs, I was also privileged to participate in the Armenian elections – a pearl of European cultural heritage – which, as was said, is a country with a solid basis for the electoral system. I would only like to make one remark, and I ask your attention to this aspect. Freedom of religion must be respected, and arresting bishops is not in line with basic democratic freedoms. Also, I would like to welcome our new colleagues in the organisation... 23/06/2026 | 16:42:33 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, first of all I would like to congratulate the rapporteurs for the fantastic work they have done. Yes, Serbia is really a factor of stability in the Western Balkan region, in a region which has historical tensions and historical wealth and diversity at the same time. Serbia, for example, was able to draw the conclusions from the very tragic wars of the 1990s and to start a negotiation process, for example, with Hungary. That historical... 22/06/2026 | 12:24:08 Thank you Madam President and Mister Secretary General. Dear colleagues, Yes, we had the Hungarian elections and I would like to thank you for all your participation in a very high number at the Hungarian elections. And I would like to express my gratitude to Mr Pablo HISPÁN and for his correct evaluation, including the danger of a two-thirds new majority. In the past two months, unfortunately, we have experienced that in Hungary, the question of democracy or the constitutional crisis is a... 20/04/2026 | 12:09:34 Thank you very much, Madam President, for the floor. Congratulations to Mr Pablo HISPÁN for the report. I would like to talk about the Hungarian elections as well. Colleagues, it was a result which we need to analyse: 53% of the votes resulted in a two-thirds victory of the winner. I would like to express my gratitude to everybody who came to the Hungarian elections. I believe that this demonstrated that Hungary is a multi-party democracy based on the rule of law and obviously free elections... 27/01/2026 | 19:50:53 Thank you very much, Madam. And I have to express my dissatisfaction that we couldn't listen to more contributions to this very important discussion. Many interested members of Parliament should have been able. I would like to ask you to transmit it to the Office that if we are talking about a very serious monitoring of a country, we cannot allow that only two people can contribute. Okay? This is number one. I would like to ask you. Colleagues, Secondly, I would like to agree with all those... 27/01/2026 | 19:19:05 Madam Chair, Dear colleagues, Twenty-four years ago, by joining the Council of Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina officially committed to honour the obligations placed on all member states under Article 3 of the Organisation’s Statute, and consequently to revise, with the assistance of the Venice Commission, its institutional organisation and its electoral legislation in the light of the Council of Europe standards. As mentioned in our report, the institutional framework of the State of Bosnia... 27/01/2026 | 12:53:02 Madam, I would like to start by saying that, dear colleagues, we are commemorating here today and we are doing the right thing. I think the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is doing the right thing for many years. I would like to congratulate all of us. Secondly, yes, we do remember the 6 million Jews who perished in the gas chambers. Also, we remember that this was the darkest page of our common European civilisation. Our common civilisation, not just the German. Also we do... 26/01/2026 | 17:04:37 Madam President, dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate every newly-elected official in our Assembly, Ms Elvira KOVÁCS, all the other committee chairs and other officials. I would like to reflect on the election of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's President. The European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates did not support the Socialist candidate, as you could follow. But it was nothing personal, I would like to underline. On the contrary, we would have liked to... 26/01/2026 | 11:35:13 Dear Theodoros, dear colleagues, I tried to identify why I like our President, Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS. And I suggest you do that too. Why do you like him? Because I'm convinced that most of you like him. First of all, I like you, Theodoros, because I feel the positivity and kindness in your personality. Secondly, I like you because you have creativity in your activity. For example, you have decided to create a Council of Europe prize for human rights documentaries, which was a very original...