29/01/2025 | 18:38:24 Thank you, President. Two things first of all. The first. I want to thank my colleague Kate OSAMOR for her very valuable and very thorough work. This report and the resolution turn the spotlight on two issues that are central and both pose extraordinary challenges to policy. And what more important is there? What is the point of politics if not to address the challenges we face in the future? This is the question we must ask ourselves in this Assembly. The population of Europe is aging. We... 01/10/2024 | 16:19:53 Thank you, President. First of all, I would like to express my appreciation for the excellent work done by my colleagues Mr Julian PAHLKE and Lord Simon RUSSELL on such dramatic issues as the disappearance of migrants and the need for a shared approach to address migrant trafficking. We need to multiply the efforts already underway to ascertain the fate of those who go missing by putting in place a properly funded plan of action, respecting human rights and humanitarian law, beginning with... 27/06/2024 | 19:30:43 Thank you, President. The title of this debate poses a question for us, whether the Council of Europe should, and can, counter the growing threats to freedom of expression. Unfortunately, we can only answer in the affirmative in light of the facts that objectively are affecting a great many countries where freedom of expression is continually being challenged, even countries where one would not expect to see this phenomenon. It seems paradoxical to have to recall the reasons for this clear... 25/06/2024 | 18:30:44 Asylum Procedures. First of all, I want to thank my colleague Ms Stephanie KRISPER very much for this important Report on asylum procedures, both for the quality and the commitment, which I was able to see and follow closely. This is a very important work that appeals and speaks to our consciences as European citizens. First of all, human rights-compliant asylum procedures, this must be remembered, are part of every member state's obligations under the international law of the European... 25/01/2024 | 10:16:02 Thank you, Thank you, Mister President. Ukraine's girls and boys, forced to live in situations of war and conflict, are twice victims. Victims because they suffer the violence that war brings, and victims because their age makes them extremely vulnerable. Among the most severe sufferings a person can undergo is the condition of being displaced, which entails the loss of points of reference, essential for every child's growth and development, and the loss of his or her rights: the right to... 12/10/2023 | 18:22:24 Thank you President, I visited Armenia in October 2012 with a delegation of the Italian Parliament and had the opportunity not only to meet with representatives of Armenian institutions, but also to admire the mystical monuments that are part of that country's cultural and religious heritage. None of us or even our hosts in those days 11 years ago, despite the fact that the crisis between Armenia and Azerbaijan in relation to the fates of Nagorno-Karabakh had been going on for some time... 27/04/2023 | 16:34:49 Thank you President, I would like to thank my colleague Mr Paulo PISCO for the difficult and very delicate work aimed at exposing and striking down even in this very authoritative forum the phenomenon of deportations and forced relocations of minor children, Ukrainian girls and boys to the Russian Federation or temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. On 17 March, the second pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court issued two arrest warrants for Russian President Putin and...