15/04/2024 | 16:47:23 Mister Minister. We are aware and we appreciate a lot the progress made by the Republic of Moldova during the past years: the candidate status for the EU accession, the decision for starting the negotiations and while facing very serious challenges and the hybrid attacks coming from Russia or its proxies. And this is happening exactly before fundamental Presidential elections and the referendum for European integration scheduled in October this year. I would like to ask you to indicate to us... 24/01/2024 | 16:06:47 Dear colleagues, Secretary-General CORMANN, First of all, on behalf of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, but also as a representative of member state Romania, which is advancing in having the quality of a candidate towards full membership of the OECD, I would like to emphasise a few topical issues which are reflected in this report and the draft resolution, so well drafted by our former rapporteur Mr George KATROUGALOS and now followed by Mr Bertrand BOUYX. This report, which is a... 23/01/2024 | 17:19:24 Colleagues, from the beginning I will say that I will support the adoption of the Report and the draft Resolution. In the current complicated context I can appreciate the hard work of the rapporteur for a balanced and fair Report. A few concrete elements. October 7 first of all, and the horrible crimes committed by the Hamas terrorists. This was the first episode, and some people try to forget this important fact. I strongly condemn the killing of the innocent people. Killing people, killing... 20/06/2023 | 15:25:35 Mister President, I must confess that I have a dilemma. I must finalise in just a few months from now my report on the EU's accession to the European Convention of Human Rights. There is still a missing link, not in this house, but at the level of the European Union. My question is very simple and definitely in much more concrete terms: do you have the intention to use your important current functions as Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and your future high-ranking... 19/06/2023 | 17:19:09 Thank you President, Mr Minister, A topic related to national minorities as individual rights according to the European standards. Mr Minister, I'm interested in raising the same question that I raised to you in September 2021. I'm interested in finding out if Hungary and the Hungarian government will adopt in the end, after all these years, the appropriate measures to assure a real representation of national minorities living in Hungary, in the Hungarian Parliament, starting of course with... 24/01/2023 | 17:15:22 Mr President, colleagues, I sincerely applaud the hard work of our rapporteur and the draft report and the recommendation that we have now on our table. It took a number of years to advance with the idea that was proposed initially by Mr Michele NICOLETTI. Now we are very close to having this historical fourth Summit of the Council of Europe. The idea of adopting a political declaration and an action plan is normal, it's an important goal. But, I would like to underline one thing. And I will... 24/01/2023 | 13:05:13 Madam Minister, as you know, all of us work hard in our countries, including in my own Romania, to strongly support Ukraine while facing the aggression coming from Russia. At the same time, in some member States, we have accumulated, during the years and during the past year, an increasing concern and now a huge disappointment seeing the bad treatment granted to the national minorities in this country including the Romanian national minority. The law on education, the recent law on minorities... 13/10/2022 | 19:29:08 Thank you, President and colleagues. First of all, and I'm doing this objectively. I'd like to thank and to express my appreciations for the hard work and the objective work of both rapporteurs, and for what was said about the positive dimension and about the critics. And we are taking very seriously also the other part of critics. I think it's most probably the most balanced, objective, and positive good report on Romania in the last many, many years here in the Council of Europe. It... 12/10/2022 | 16:51:47 Mr Prime Minister, No change for my country's clear support for the European path of Albania based on criteria. There is one single question which is related to two elements. The bilateral political discussions that we had during the years on one specific topic. And secondly, and this is the first time we invoke this, the rule of law criteria for EU accession, the execution of judgments, a court of appeal from Albania from 2007 on the historical restitution of a historical symbol for our... 11/10/2022 | 10:31:27 Hello president, colleagues, First of all I would like to congratulate our rapporteur Mr George PAPANDREOU for his excellent report. Definitely I will share and support his conclusions. Secondly, just a few political comments. The first one is the following: all the time the EU enlargement process was a huge asset for the European Union. It was the case with the Central Eastern former communist countries; it is the case now with some of the Eastern partners: Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, and...