25/06/2025 | 16:39:08 Mr President, I'm somehow surprised about the discussion in this room. And you, sir, as a British citizen, a former occupying force of Palestine, you are not a very good example to talk about human rights. If you see what you did before 1948, I'm sorry to say so, maybe you're part of the problem. But the main problem we have, the hostages are still being kept by Hamas. That's the root problem that we have. Israel is trying to liberate the hostages. They are trying to fight Hamas. And Israel... 10/04/2025 | 16:19:33 President, we are discussing the situation in Gaza every session and every time the title is wrong. Again, we are asking for an immediate end to the humanitarian blockade of Gaza and the reinstatement of the ceasefire. But that's wrong. We should ask for the immediate release of the hostages. That's the root of the problem and nothing else. Gaza is a cesspool of terror that's holding innocent hostages in its grip. Israel stands alone as a democracy in a sea of despotism, yet is slandered... 09/04/2025 | 10:55:24 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. Thank you, Mr Frank SCHWABE, for your report. I think Frank and I, we've been in the Council of Europe for many years, and we also had some good experience on corruption, mainly when we were observing the elections in Azerbaijan. It was very easy to tell who could have gotten a bribe and who didn't get the bribe. We nearly lost our report. We made a negative report about the outcome of the election and how the elections were done. We nearly lost it, because... 30/01/2025 | 18:37:54 Thank you, Mister Chair, It's a very interesting debate that we can follow and I thank for the report. I think we have a few problems here in Europe. The first problem is that we do not control any of those social media; they're mainly controlled by US companies, by Chinese companies and also by Russian companies. So we can make regulations but we cannot enforce them upon those companies. And, of course, we see the problems mainly here about social media but it's also a chance because people... 28/01/2025 | 17:44:16 Thank you, Mister President. I wish I could thank Ms Saskia KLUIT for her report, but I'm not able to do so. It's completely one-sided and I listened very carefully to what you mentioned about the humanitarian law. What about the humanitarian law on 7 October? What about the hostages? What about the access of the Red Cross for the hostages? Is there any access for them? No. It's a breach of humanitarian law. What about the terrorist attack against civilians, against families, mothers... 01/10/2024 | 19:27:26 Dear Mister Chair, One year has passed since the terrorist attack on innocent people in Israel - babies, children, families brutally tortured and murdered by Hamas terrorists. As human defenders in the Council of Europe, we should condemn those horrific attacks by Hamas. And as a human rights institution, we should defend the state of Israel for the right of self defence. Hezbollah has sent nearly 10 000 rockets to the state of Israel. And if Mr Bernard SABELLA said we need to stop the war... 24/06/2024 | 12:30:52 Thank you, Mister Chair. Dear colleagues, I first want to thank the North Macedonian authorities for the invitation to observe the elections on 24 April and 8 May. As I only have 3 minutes, I will make a shortcut. The main topic of the election was, of course, corruption and the adhesion to the European Union. As you know, North Macedonia changed their flag, and they changed their name in order for them to become a member of the European Union. Now they have found new obstacles, Bulgaria... 18/04/2024 | 19:28:24 Yes. Thank you very much, Mister President. I never heard such a lot of nonsense as in this debate. To Ms Sena Nur ÇELİK KANAT, I must tell you that the report of Mr Piero FASSINO found the majority in this Parliament, and if you are a democrat you should accept a democratic decision by the Council of Europe. That shows your thinking. Probably you think like Hamas, that killed their Fatah brothers in Gaza and established a terrorist regime. Gaza was not an open-air prison. The Israelis... 26/04/2022 | 11:18:54 Dear President, and thank you, Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, for your very good report. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, but a member of the Council of Europe and of course for us it is important that we can uphold the values that we share here in this house and in our institution. I was a little bit afraid that because the majority of member states is now a member of the European Union in the Council of Europe, there was a sort of danger that we would adhere to the European Union and... 24/01/2022 | 15:48:26 Thank you Mr President, and also congratulations for your election and good success for the coming two years. As you know, we've been in Bulgaria for the third time this year. The reason was that during the two previous elections parties were not able to form a government. Now, after the elections, we were observing on November 14 that the government was formed. We had a new party that won the elections. We Continue the Change with 25.67%. The former ruling party, GERB-SDS, they came in...