26/06/2025 | 17:58:10 Thank you very much. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2024 Democracy Index, Georgia recorded the fourth-largest deterioration in democracy worldwide and the sharpest decline in the South Caucasus region. For over 200 days, ongoing protests have been taking place, demanding new elections. The government led by Georgian Dream (GD) has responded with a series of repressive measures, such as restrictive legislative changes, increased criminal prosecution and sometimes harsh... 26/06/2025 | 16:18:29 Thank you very much. Of course, due to time constraints, I will not respond to everybody, but thank you very much for this really fruitful and rich debate. And let me start with Ms Céline THIÉBAULT-MARTINEZ, also thanking you for your valuable additions and amendments to this report. And you are absolutely right, equality is not cherry on the cream. Equality is something for every day and that's exactly what makes the substance of civilisation – equality. To Ms Albana VOKSHI, I just wanted to... 26/06/2025 | 15:16:20 Thank you very much, Theodoros. "Your body, my choice." "Your body, my choice" is a quote from a male US nationalist, a Holocaust denier. I think that his name isn't worth mentioning. But his quote went viral on X last winter, and I think that attacks against the rights of women couldn't be summarised more concisely, as in this quote. "Your body, my choice" expresses male supremacy and female submission. I associate it with slavery because it's also about degrading women's bodies to... 24/06/2025 | 16:30:21 The illegal war of aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine will maybe be the best-documented ever that we have. I have had the opportunity to visit during the Easter weekend in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Bucha. And in Kharkiv, I visited, among others, a drone cemetery where a prosecutor is working on the production of evidence. What missile has done what damage, where and when, what was the exact trajectory, what military unit was in charge at the origin of the trajectory? And how did the... 24/06/2025 | 10:41:43 Yeah, thank you very much. The Court interprets the Convention, and that makes it a living document; and since it entered into force, for instance, Article 14 on anti-discrimination has been developed tremendously. And we are also now all witnesses to an emerging right to live in a healthy, clean and sustainable environment. This development, of course, is important as it reflects social progress. And also debates about the interpretation are legitimate, if they are serious and if they uphold... 10/04/2025 | 12:21:54 Thank you very much, Mister President, and thank you, Titus CORLĂŢEAN, for this really important report. It is clear that we speak about one legal space, when it comes to the member states of the European Union (EU) within the Council of Europe, which is quite harmonised. Let me also focus on the implications of the participation of the European Union at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This will help unfold the human rights protection umbrella over all people living in European... 10/04/2025 | 10:37:59 Thank you very much. Indeed our environment needs very robust protection, and the criminal law is absolutely an appropriate measure. It's very common on a national level, but there are still voids on an international level, so we really should close them. I would like to focus on the Rome Statute, which is the basis of international criminal law. And crimes against the environment are often linked with other offences the International Criminal Court is dealing with anyway. So just to mention... 09/04/2025 | 19:31:54 "No. International courts are not made to intervene in sovereign states. International courts are made to restore justice in sovereign states, just to make clear what they are made for." [in English]. Let me come to the report and to the core. The European Court of Human Rights is the core or is one of the very, very important cores of the Council of Europe. The core is only ever as hard as the implementation of the judgments of this Court work well. In the Committee for the Election of... 09/04/2025 | 16:37:17 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman. I must confess. When I look at Türkiye at the moment, I am above all desperate, really desperate, because it is clear that the judiciary is being misused for political purposes in order to clear away politically undesirable opponents. I am desperate because the results of democratic elections are being trampled on again and again, because mayors are being replaced by government commissioners. I am desperate, because for years, for many years, Türkiye has... 09/04/2025 | 10:27:07 Yeah, thank you very much. We know that many countries start to fight corruption in politics when there is a specific case that becomes public. And of course that's a good reason, and better then, than never. But I think that we are all united in the idea that a system to assist MPs to respect ethical standards from scratch is much better than one that only relies on responding to breaches of standards. It's obvious that throughout Europe we have very diverse standards, from clear settled...