01/10/2026 | 11:08:46 Socialists, Greens, Democrats and many others. Mr President, Mr Paweł JABŁOŃSKI, I’ve heard there are brown bears in Poland. What do you actually do if you come across one? Do you say there aren’t any brown bears at all? Or that there shouldn’t be any brown bears in this forest? Or do you simply close your eyes? I think that would ultimately – I have to put it this way – be rather foolish, and it would probably be quite deadly as well. Incidentally, it’s the same with climate change: if we... 30/09/2026 | 12:36:05 I just think about the language I should use. So, in English, it is okay. Madam President, Mister President, thank you very much for this very important speech. Congratulations on 50 years of membership in this organisation. And if I may say so, as a German, congratulations that you are a member of the UN Security Council. So, you spoke about the Constitution of Portugal, the very innovative one. Tomorrow we have a very important debate about the environment and climate change. You spoke a... 29/09/2026 | 10:17:15 Madam Secretary General, Dear Mr Knut ABRAHAM, Dear Secretary General, Dear Ambassadors, In historical times it's always important that all the different dimensions of the Council of Europe work together constructively. Sometimes it's a little bit warm when we discuss something, but at the end I think the outcome is always a good one. Thank you very much, Mr Knut ABRAHAM, for this united perspective, to express our united view, to make a memorable olfactory signature in this debate that we... 24/06/2026 | 18:01:52 Dear Mr President, First of all, congratulations to the Vice President in this Assembly. Dear colleagues, I think we speak about the biggest disappointment in this Organisation. I would like to thank the Rapporteurs, Ms Sabina ĆUDIĆ, and I would like to thank Ms Edite ESTRELA, for their commitment, for their work. And I know it from Ms Edite ESTRELA how much you would like to see Georgia acting in line with the values and rules of this Organisation. And what are you really doing for this? And... 24/06/2026 | 16:49:04 Dear Mister President, Dear colleagues, And dear Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Again we all, maybe not all, but most of us, we want to stop Russia's aggression, Russia's war towards Ukraine. That's what we want together. But you misunderstand this organisation and that doesn't mean you put everything else in all the other states into perspective. We have something to do and we have to do our job. And I looked this morning, into the definition and the characteristics of dictatorship. I looked into... 23/06/2026 | 11:20:39 Madam President, Dear colleagues, That we see a deterioration of human rights, of democracy and rule of law in Türkiye, this is nothing new, but what we see now is a very dramatic development in the last months and years. And for sure those ones who underline the geopolitical role of Türkiye are right and we welcome this geopolitical role and we should work together. But this organisation is about the situation in Türkiye. It's about democracy, the rule of law and the human rights situation... 23/04/2026 | 11:19:58 Madam President, Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for this very important exchange of views. I would like to thank all the Ukrainian colleagues for always opening your heart in this debate. I know it is not easy to describe your personal situation. I would like to ask, for sure, Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS was mentioned, Mr Iulian BULAI and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe for the initiative for this debate. But, we want to show – and I think it was seen through the speakers... 23/04/2026 | 10:08:09 Thank you very much, and good morning, Ms President, Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, We meet today in an Assembly that represents Europe‘s commitment to law and human rights. These principles were built after the worst moments in our history. Today, they are under serious pressure again. This is not just another debate. It is a test. We must decide whether international law still protects the vulnerable, or whether it fails when faced with open aggression. Think about the... 22/04/2026 | 12:00:44 Mister President, I'm sorry to say that this is for sure unfortunately not the aim of the amendment. The aim of the amendment is to undermine the meaning of the legislation in Spain. The "Yes Means Yes" legislation is a leading example for all of Europe. We have to be thankful to the government and to the parliament of Spain for this legislation. What we should really not do – and I really ask each and every one, even those who have a very prominent role in this Parliamentary Assembly of the... 27/01/2026 | 12:47:52 Madam President Bayer, Madam President Sandu, distinguished guests. The Holocaust was organised on German soil and by Germans. This fills me with great shame. I'm therefore grateful that I may speak here, albeit on behalf of my parliamentary group, but nonetheless as a German. It fills me with great shame that antisemitism, antigypsyism, discrimination against LGBTIQ, discrimination against people with disabilities, racism and general misanthropy, while never truly gone, are now resurfacing...