25/06/2025 | 10:26:51 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Yes, first of all, on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, I'd like to thank our two colleagues, Mr Kim VALENTIN from Denmark and Mr Mogens JENSEN from Denmark, for their two reports. Both examine the place and role of sport in political, social and international life, based on two related subjects. The Council of Europe has contributed a number of important sporting standards, including the European Sports Charter, the Code of Sports Ethics and... 24/06/2025 | 12:00:36 Thank you, President. Kalimera. First of all, on behalf of my group, I would like to thank our two rapporteurs, Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS and Mrs Yelyzaveta YASKO, for the two reports. They both underscore two related subjects: namely, the need to render justice in Ukraine at a time when the international situation is particularly unstable and uncertain, and where we lose sight of a war that threatens the doorstep of the European continent. With regard to the legal issues and human rights... 09/04/2025 | 11:16:21 Thank you, Mister Chairman. First of all, I'd like to thank our colleague Mr Frank SCHWABE, who acted as rapporteur for the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs, and who has drawn up a statement with some very useful observations and proposals on this major theme of preventing corruption, its environment and its damaging effects on our democracies and our Assembly. Corruption is indeed a major problem, manifestations in different forms and with different... 08/04/2025 | 18:17:03 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank George PAPANDREOU for joining our Parliamentary Assembly today to discuss issues of democracy and human rights in the Balkans, from a threefold perspective: historical and cultural solidarity in the broadest sense, political complementarity, and the rule of law, its values and practices. This is an area also marked by the determination of some state apparatuses to impose authoritarian policies, where... 08/04/2025 | 12:06:38 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, I too would like to thank the rapporteur for this detailed and timely project. It sets out a number of areas of work around the renewal of concepts, civil society's resistance to these influences, the fight against disinformation, and the need for international cooperation. I would also add that for several years now, there have been cyber attacks and manipulations via social media aimed at shaping opinion. I would add that the methods of diversion are... 29/01/2025 | 11:03:14 Thank you, Madam President. Madame rapporteur, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I'd like to thank the rapporteur for her work, which is timely in terms of improving the teaching of history to today's young people; challenging in terms of the implications that this paradigm shift may have; and equally concrete in terms of her recommendations and points of departure. Multiperspectivity in teaching, whether formal or informal, to borrow a distinction made by the rapporteur, can be summarily... 28/01/2025 | 10:46:23 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Madame rapporteur, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS, the rapporteur, for this timely work in uncertain times, balanced by a reminder of the importance of the law, and which also puts into perspective the acceptance of common rules, vectors of multilateralism, and the efforts of the United Nations to improve the acceptability of international bodies seen as platforms for global relations between states. Both the UN and our... 30/09/2024 | 17:05:49 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, The motion for a resolution presented to us by our colleague, whose work I salute here, represents a milestone for the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), the continent's oldest multilateral development bank. I really wanted to thank its Governor for the report that has been presented and for his speech earlier. A major instrument, I'd say, for solidarity policy, and one to be commended. Despite its long history, the CEB still too often... 16/04/2024 | 15:52:11 Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Rapporteur, In 2014 and again in 2022, Russia attacked a sovereign European country without legitimate cause and in violation of international law. Ukraine resisted, and its Western European allies supported it. The present report, on the reconstruction of Ukraine and the role of the Council of Europe, proposes a number of avenues to ensure real indemnification and fair compensation for the damage caused by the aggressor. Three observations are... 23/01/2024 | 19:48:11 Thank you, Mister Chairman. It's difficult, ladies and gentlemen, Mister Rapporteur, to tackle this subject because it's so animated; animated, for some political players, by an opportunistic desire to lay the blame for various misfortunes on those who are often perceived as different. It's also animated for many others, driven by fear and the dread of downgrading taken for granted. Dear colleagues, the rapporteur has tried to identify the factors that encourage discriminatory discourse and...