26/04/2022 | 15:46:31 Thank you very much, Mr President. Madam Secretary General, You will not be surprised: my question is about Ukraine and the dedicated action plan for this country at war. We have already heard about the one-off actions carried out by the Council of Europe but I would like to know a little more about the proposed strategy. I know that you are planning a visit to Kyiv and in this regard I would like to ask you more details about the schedule of your potential trip to Ukraine. When do you plan... 15/03/2022 | 09:59:54 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, The date of 24 February will go down in history as a major turning point. On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, I would like to pay tribute to the innocent victims and salute the courage of the Ukrainian people who are defending their country, their freedom and their identity. Faced with the violence of the Russian army that is bombing cities and killing hundreds of innocent civilians, including women and children, we cannot remain... 27/01/2022 | 17:56:18 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, First of all, on behalf of the EPP Group, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for this report and congratulate them on the quality of their work. At a time when the Armenian President, Mr Armen Sarkissian, has just resigned, on 23 January, on the grounds that he did not have the means to influence internal and external policy, this report constitutes an important contribution to a current reflection on the Armenian institutional system. Indeed, I... 27/01/2022 | 16:12:06 Mr President, Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, Madam Secretary General, Dear colleagues, It is with great emotion that I am participating today, as President of the EPP/CD Group, in this International Day of Commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust. I have listened with great respect and emotion to the messages and testimonies of the survivors of the Shoah, including Simone Veil, a personality with an exceptional career. I bow to the memory of the millions of victims of Nazi barbarism... 26/01/2022 | 18:54:49 Thank you very much, Madam President. I congratulate you for overseeing such amazing subjects. I especially wanted to thank Mr Jacques MAIRE because I know that his work was not easy. He did it in an excellent way. I know that he was attacked from all sides but I believe that he did it in an extraordinary way: once again, Mr MAIRE, I congratulate you for this very difficult work. I wanted to talk, in two or three words, about the legal system in Russia. Some of us, when I was listening to our... 26/01/2022 | 16:09:25 Thank you very much, President. Dear colleagues, I would like to start with congratulations to Mr Piero FASSINO but also to Mr Samad SEYIDOV. To start your duties with such a hot topic is really challenging, and I wish you, in the future, some less stressful duties. The Group of the European People's Party fully shares the view of the Monitoring Committee about the deteriorating situation with regards to pluralism, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in the Russian Federation and the way... 26/01/2022 | 10:47:34 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to thank our rapporteur for this report and I agree with most of the theses that are included here in the summary, in the recommendations. I am totally convinced that young players should not be treated as objects; that is fundamental. And something has to be done about the transfer rules, about the rules of national federations, because the scandals that have occurred at a very high level are everywhere, including in our respective national federations... 24/01/2022 | 15:57:51 Let me begin with congratulations. We worked together in the Presidential Committee for four years, almost four years. I strongly believe that the atmosphere that we created contributed to peaceful work and to consensus. The word consensus is something which is very close to my heart. In many things we did it. I wish you a very good two years and I hope that in the same aim we are going to cooperate. Of course I would like to congratulate you, Mr Rik DAEMS, for the last two years. We heard... 30/09/2021 | 12:27:01 (FR) Madam President, dear colleagues, Mr President, I would like to thank you for your attention, Located in the heart of Europe, at the crossroads of civilisations, the Western Balkans region has been marked, over the past centuries, by deadly conflicts - in particular the wars that arose from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. As Sir Winston Churchill once said; "the Balkans produce more history than they can consume." Thirty years later, this region is still experiencing high tensions... 29/09/2021 | 16:26:12 Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, on behalf of the EPP Group, I would like to welcome the fact that our Assembly has made the right to a healthy environment an essential part of its work. With this high-level panel, there are no fewer than seven thematic reports, including a draft additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. I thank the President of our Assembly for his personal commitment to making these issues a priority, and I congratulate the various...