10/10/2022 | 12:11:40 Yes. Thank you, Mr President. Colleagues, I would like first of all to thank the rapporteur of the Assembly, and of course, the leader of the Socialist Group Mr Frank SCHWABE for introducing a very well structured report, progress report. We share the conclusions. On behalf of the Socialist Group I will focus specifically on two items: the fourth summit and the new European Political Community. First of all, on the fourth summit, the summit it is about the tragedy generated by the Russian... 23/06/2022 | 12:11:45 Thank you very much, Mister President. Your Majesty, Colleagues, First of all I would like to thank all the colleagues who contributed. Their contributions were extremely important for our debate and for the conclusion of our debate today. I want especially to thank also, from a human point of view, for the empathy, for the emotions, for the heart that you expressed speaking about this tragedy. My first comment on the substance is related to the question that I received related to the data... 23/06/2022 | 11:15:56 Mister President, Colleagues, First of all I, myself, would like to welcome some of the families of the Dutch victims of the flight MH17, who are honouring us in being present today with us in the Parliamentary Assembly. Colleagues, The report before you is about a human tragedy, which took the lives of 298 people, including 198 Dutch citizens, 17 nationalities all in all, including one Romanian, who were on board flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. They died an atrocious... 22/06/2022 | 11:00:22 Thank you, Madam President. Colleagues, I would like from the beginning to congratulate our rapporteur, Ms Petra BAYR, for this really excellent work and for the conclusions that proposed that I totally share. Unfortunately, antisemitism, denial of Holocaust, discrimination and hate speech these are realities, very concerning realities, and, fortunately, these are topical issues currently. Looking on different national and international sources of information, and especially on the European... 28/04/2022 | 18:46:14 Yes, Mister President. Maybe I will take also 1 extra minute or so from Mr Claude KERN's allowed time. The first comment. The issue of the extreme polarisation, the issue of hate speech and the issue of political culture that was mentioned by one of the colleagues that took the floor. Is true that during the years this remains the key challenge. And from this challenge, there are several negative consequences, extremely negative consequences. I can testify the fact that during the years... 28/04/2022 | 17:57:04 Mister President, Colleagues, Georgia has continued to make marked progress in honouring its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe during the reporting period, continuing a tradition that was also noted in previous reports. At the same time as outlined in the report, a number of concerns and shortcomings remain to be addressed before the country can move to a post-monitoring dialogue. Nevertheless, the progress made should be recognised. Therefore, in the report, we have... 28/04/2022 | 17:55:51 Mr Chairman, Dear Colleagues, Today we are presenting you with a comprehensive monitoring report on the implementation of Georgia's obligations and commitments. This report was prepared based on multiple visits to Georgia and countless meetings with stakeholders and Georgia's friends and partners. It was originally scheduled to be submitted in the spring of 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This report is based on the excellent co-operation between us, the rapporteurs, and... 27/04/2022 | 10:48:33 Thank you President and colleagues. First of all, I would like to express a word of respect for our Ukrainian colleagues, women and men, for their courage and the way how they fight and support the interests of their country and their nation. Secondly, I want to express a clear and strong support for the adoption of the report proposed by our rapporteur, Mr Frank SCHWABE. This report, while expressing once again the support for the integrity, sovereignty and independent status of Ukraine (and... 26/04/2022 | 11:52:09 I will start first with... I will share the view that this horrible war of aggression perpetrated by Russia against Ukraine fundamentally changed some serious subjects that we have in Europe, inter alia also, how many were seeing the substance of this partnership between the Council of Europe and the European Union, especially in Brussels, as a strategic partnership. Here I want to make a confession. I paid a visit to Brussels meeting a number of members of the European Commission, high... 26/04/2022 | 10:10:49 Mister President, Dear Colleagues, When I started preparing this report, I intended to take stock of the co-operation between the Council of Europe and the European Union and suggest areas where our interaction could be improved. The Russian Federation's large-scale aggression against Ukraine has added urgency and relevance to this report. Using the expression "strategic partnership" to describe the co‑operation between the Council of Europe and the European Union has never been more...