27/01/2026 | 16:52:27 Thank you, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Firstly, I would also like to thank the rapporteur for this excellent report and all my fellow members who have contributed to it. After 1945, balanced civic democracy brought prosperity and freedom to the west of Europe. For us in Central Europe and Eastern Europe, the Soviet-Russian occupation brought something else. That is why it is important to emphasise elections as the heart of bourgeois democracy in this assembly as well. They are also... 30/09/2025 | 17:27:58 Thank you, Madam President, Dear colleagues, At times like these, in historic times, it is particularly important that we uphold European values. Because our citizens believe in welfare and rights and it is only through these values that we can support them. The Council of Europe stands for these values, for human rights, for civic rights and for balance. I would like to point out that this well-founded and balanced report by Mr NÉMETH also guides us in the right direction. This is... 25/01/2024 | 16:17:51 Madam Secretary General, Among the important objectives of the Reykjavík Declaration, the protection of traditional national minorities was also mentioned and my question is: what concrete measures and plans the Council of Europe has implemented since the Reykjavík Declaration? I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we will be electing a new European Parliament in June 2024 and I believe that these issues should be given much higher priority by all member states of the... 11/10/2023 | 18:12:15 Thank you, Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, I think the discussion so far shows us all what an important topic this excellent report deals with. On the one hand, I would like to point out that I come from a country that has been affected by the Pegasus spyware. As a conservative opposition politician, I am very concerned about the fact that journalists and we, the opposition politicians, are suspected of having been monitored by this spyware. We believe in a democracy. This includes... 24/01/2023 | 17:21:45 Thank you, Mister President, Dear Colleagues, First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the rapporteur and all contributors for this excellent report. In historic times, we need to hold historic summits, and these summits need to be well prepared. With this document, I mean that this Assembly takes an important step in that direction. While we are talking about the historical perspective, let me talk a little bit about the fact that the world order after 1945 was really then... 11/10/2022 | 11:46:05 Thank you, Mr. President. Dear Colleagues, First, of course, I want to express my appreciation to Rapporteur George PAPANDREOU and all the contributors for this excellent report. Let me start from the historical perspective. After all, I come from a country, Hungary, where for centuries we had the closest ties with the Balkan countries. The lesson of history is: without the Balkan states there is neither peace nor stability in Europe. Moreover, we are clearly in times where since the Russian... 27/04/2022 | 11:36:54 Thank you, Madam President. My first sentence is, of course, to the brave people in Ukraine. I would like to express our deepest solidarity here in this meeting as well. The people of Hungary have expressed it there also by saying that we support and will continue to support several hundred thousand refugees from Ukraine. Secondly, I would like to emphasise that the wheel of history is moving rapidly these days. It is precisely in such times that the importance of the Council of Europe... 15/03/2022 | 12:06:54 Dear Madam President, In this difficult hour I would like to express first of all our full solidarity with the people in Ukraine. This solidarity of the Hungarian citizens can be felt on a daily basis, also due to the fact that large amounts of aid are being collected and passed on to Ukraine, or that the people who have fled Ukraine are being supported with all means. As the rapporteur also mentioned, as a neighbouring country of Ukraine, my home country Hungary is really very open and has... 25/01/2022 | 18:21:06 Thank you, Mr President, I think that this report – which I also endorse, and can only congratulate the previous speakers, the rapporteur – is a very important step, because in times of crisis like today, the role of the media is a very special one. I believe that, as a result, the employees of the media also have a special responsibility. That is why it would be very important for the media to present an objective and scientifically based opinion. As the previous speakers have already... 28/09/2021 | 12:43:02 Thank you, Madam President, I would like to emphasise, firstly, that this report is really taking place at a very topical time and the discussion about it. Secondly, I would like to mention the point that has not yet been raised in this discussion, namely that, on the one hand, inequality does not only exist in the society of our Member States, but inequality also exists geographically within our Member States. That means regionally and also on the European continent. Thirty-two years after...