24/01/2024 | 16:55:16 Thank you very much Mr President [spoken in French], My dear colleagues, I think it's a very important report, but we need to speak not just about the details of this report, but the idea. Globalisation in times of crisis and war, and we want to discuss it. But let us be frank: globalisation failed. It failed, and this is the reality, because we started globalisation from the wrong end. We started the globalisation from economic globalisation. The idea was let us be economically globalised... 23/01/2024 | 19:59:14 Thank you very much. Dear colleagues. I think that this is an extremely timely report, an extremely timely report. The topic of migration, today, at the moment when the whole world is entering the most democratic year in the history of humankind, more than two billion people in the world will vote this year, and will vote for their democratically elected governments. That is unbelievable. There will be elections throughout the whole European Union and many Council of Europe member states. I... 23/01/2024 | 19:17:44 Thank you, it's quite... sorry, dear colleagues, but it's quite a strange Amendment, because how can we destroy the economic ties with some settlements, which somebody will decide that are illegal? I mean, it sounds strange, it's impossible to do and, in general, we have the situation when Hamas terrorists are receiving money in cryptocurrency from Iran, from Russia, without any economic ties, receive weaponry from them, and that's the main problem, and we need to deal with the main problem... 23/01/2024 | 18:53:22 Dear colleagues, I want to address to you. We are speaking now about a huge tragedy and I do not think that what is going on now in the Assembly is something good looking. Really, it is a tragedy but in any tragedy, there are those who are guilty in it, and I do not know who we should be, after what happened on 7 October, than trying not to recognise the fact that Hamas are terrorists and they made from Gaza their fortress, unfortunately. That is the problem. So, I just want to address to all... 22/01/2024 | 16:21:24 Thank you very much. First of all, I would like to start with something I would never believe in, two years ago, that I would say: thank you, President Tiny KOX for an excellent job done. Thank you very much as well, as probably you would never have believed that you would be the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe who finally kicked Russia out from this organisation. I would also like to congratulate president Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS. I had the honour of working... 13/10/2023 | 10:20:00 Thank you. First of all I would like to thank Mr Pieter OMTZIGT for his great job and for this Report. I think maybe we even now underestimate the value of this Report. It's not just about Putin, it's not just about the fact that he is a dictator, it's about a much wider picture, why democracy matters. And on the example of Russia and Putin we see why democracy matters. When you have a dictator and dictatorship, and it's clearly said here in this Report that Putin is a dictator, no questions... 12/10/2023 | 16:05:45 Thank you very much. What is the topic of our debate? Let me quote, "The role of the Council of Europe in preventing conflicts, restoring credibility of international institutions, and promoting global peace and ensuring a just peace in Ukraine and lasting security in Europe." Do we really believe that we can achieve it just by talking and adopting resolutions? We have tried to do this for decades here. For decades we were just speaking with Russia, thinking that this was a dialogue which... 11/10/2023 | 17:23:57 Thank you very much. First of all, I'd like to thank the Rapporteur for an excellent job and not only for this report, but for years in this Assembly. But I need to start with something else, because in the previous topic, unfortunately, no single Ukrainian MP received the possibility to speak, accidentally, since so many people wanted to speak but for us it's very important because we Ukrainians are living through this terror every day. When we saw these horrors from Israel, it was so... 11/10/2023 | 15:11:22 Thank you, Mister President. First of all, thank you very much, Prime Minister and Minister, for all your personal support and to the people of Latvia for their support of Ukraine. My question is until Russia goes through the imperialisation it will pose a constant threat to all our countries. What concrete steps should be made by European countries and our organisations to tackle this challenge to protect ourselves? We are the only organisation, major international organisation, which kicked... 23/06/2023 | 11:25:27 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I am so happy to speak now about such an important topic: the digital divide. Special thanks to the rapporteur, because that is about the future, because the digital divide creates huge problems for the future of our children, of our teenagers. We need to deal with it now in order to prevent awful consequences for our society. Usually, I am speaking here about what should be done, by us, by somebody else in the future, but now I want to share with you a...