11/04/2025 | 10:02:09 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, After seven years, this is probably my last speech in this Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, this truly special body. I would like to conclude by saying a few words about what we actually come together here four times a year to do and what, in my view, has become increasingly worse over the last seven years. We are the body whose central task is to talk, discuss and indeed argue about human rights, the rule of law and... 10/04/2025 | 17:21:37 Honourable Chair, dear colleagues, dear Mister rapporteur, it is a notable detail that Emmanuel MACRON, the President of France, suggested the creation of the European Political Community (EPC) at the final session of the Conference on the Future of Europe. That conference, which was to serve to integrate the European Union (EU) even further, to hand more power to EU bureaucrats and to take away democracy from citizens, led to the insight that this concept does not work because the European... 01/10/2024 | 17:31:42 Thanks, Madam President. So the paragraph here says that pushbacks are illegal practices which may also lead to disappearance and must stop immediately. But this is counter to the actual factual basis. According to the Geneva Convention, refugees must flee to the next safe area in order to be recognised, in order to be defined as refugees. And, of course, people who are not refugees but migrants can be pushed back, they can be expulsed, they can be incarcerated. This is legal, according to... 01/10/2024 | 17:26:23 Thank you, Madam President. The request is to delete Paragraph 5. It says that Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights regulates that member states have a duty to prevent violations of the right to life. That's correct. And to investigate any cases of unnatural death or unlawful killings. And that is false. You all just have to read Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and you will find out that what's in this article is simply wrong and therefore should be... 01/10/2024 | 17:08:35 Madam President, you just called Amendment 7, is that correct? [In French] It is my amendment, so I am going to present it. So in the draft resolution delete the third and the fourth sentences. And the reason is that the opposite of what's written there is true. According to the Geneva Convention, refugees must flee to the next safe area in order to be recognised. It is only then that their illegal entry into foreign territory may not be punished. This cannot be said for people coming to... 01/10/2024 | 16:16:17 Thank you Mister President, dear colleagues, Let's cut the sweet talk. Migrants going missing or dying in the sea are the cruel side of mass migration. Last year alone, amid the promise of a life in luxury, 1.14 million people sought asylum in the EU, most of who were not actual refugees. It always works according to the same process. There is a community at home that collects money. They send a man, the man pays a smuggler, the smuggler places the man in a boat, the man throws away the... 01/10/2024 | 11:05:00 Thank you very much, Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, Many of you were at the hearing with Mr Julian ASSANGE earlier. And he said something very interesting. He said that he had virtually disappeared from the surface for 14 years. And when he came back now, freedom of expression and freedom of the press have become even worse than they were then. That must give us pause for thought. At a time when there are more channels to say something than ever before, people feel they can say less... 25/06/2024 | 18:20:14 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, Europe, this Organisation, our nations will only have a democratic future if we stick to the rule of law and if international conventions aren't used against the people as it's often the case with asylum and refugee procedures. This Report demands human rights compliant asylum procedures. What it actually means is a borderless open door policy, free access to any territory for anyone, and procedures taking many, many, many years to make sure they... 19/04/2024 | 12:10:08 Mister President. If you read the text of the Amendment, it says "to raise awareness about the fight against the oversexualisation of children". So actually this wants to problematise those who criticise the children are oversexualised all the time by certain organisations and in certain schools and in certain kindergartens where, you know, they are asked to do sexual practices that are simply disgusting. So we do not have to raise awareness about the fight against oversexualisation, we have... 18/04/2024 | 11:03:02 Thanks. Should the right to a healthy environment be recognised in law as an autonomous human right? I'm firmly convinced it should not be. The reasoning behind it is already very flawed. The first paragraph of the report says that climate change is the greatest existential emergency for humankind and that this emergency is mainly due to the lack of long-lasting structural action. Wait a minute. The state of emergency is normally marked by the fact that governments lift or wave human rights...