22/06/2021 | 10:43:11 Thank you, Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Roberto RAMPI, for this excellent report and thank him for the good cooperation. I would also like to pay tribute to all my colleagues who have worked in our Committee on Culture, Education and the Media. I believe that this is a particularly important report in this 21st century. In this century of information and knowledge, the media have changed radically, as previous speakers... 21/04/2021 | 11:44:10 Thank you for speaking, Mr President, Mr President, first of all I would like to congratulate both rapporteurs on these two very courageous reports, in my view. I also agree with the previous speakers that we must show great solidarity with the citizens of Belarus here in this Parliamentary Assembly. As Vice-Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I organised a special session last August so that we could emphasise this solidarity and support for... 20/11/2020 | 17:32:50 Once again, Mr President and colleagues, Allow me, first of all, to thank all those who have given words of praise for my report. Thank you very much for that support. I would like to respond very briefly to Mr HOWELL regarding the marketisation of research. You very rightly said that, for example, when it comes to research — for instance, research during the current pandemic — in relation to the vaccine against Covid-19, applied research is of course carried out in conjunction with economic... 20/11/2020 | 16:51:58 Dear Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a particular pleasure and honour for me to present this report here today, because I believe that academic freedom is a very important issue. Admittedly, I am somewhat biased as a long-standing academic director of the University of Budapest and a linguist myself. But I think that in the 21st century, in the century of knowledge and information, academic freedom and autonomy in higher education is a particularly important issue. Admittedly also... 28/01/2020 | 18:39:11 Thank you, Mr President, for the floor. Firstly, I would like to congratulate my friend Lord FOULKES on this excellent report, and it is also a great honour for me personally, as a member of the Committee on Culture, Science and the Media, to be able to accompany this report from the very beginning. Let me tell you why this report is particularly important in the 21st century, when we find ourselves in a period of new information dissemination and, especially, with the advent of the new... 04/10/2019 | 11:44:45 Thank you, Madam President. Firstly, I would also like to express my thanks for this very important report. I mean, this is one of the most recent and urgent problems in our continent, Europe. It is very important that we examine how, 30 years after the political change, as my dear colleague Lord Richard BALFE mentioned earlier, we have come to the point where, in the Eastern and Central European Member States of the European Union, as is presented here in the report in great detail, very... 02/10/2019 | 11:31:06 Thank you, Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, There is an excellent report in front of us. I would once again like to express sincere thanks to Mr Rapporteur Lord Richard BALFE, and to all the experts who have contributed to this great report, and of course to all my fellow Members. It is worth reading this report so that we can actually review the whole development of the Ombudsman institution a bit. I think that, especially for the countries that have introduced this new institution of the... 24/01/2019 | 19:37:28 I should like to follow on from what the previous speaker was saying in emphasising the importance of this report. Some estimates suggest that one in seven Europeans is a member of a minority. I happen to be a member of the German minority in Hungary, which is why I am using the rather disadvantaged German language this evening. The rapporteur has presented a finely balanced report, and we owe a debt of gratitude to him and all the experts who worked on it. However, I would like to make a... 23/01/2019 | 16:38:20 It is an honour to speak before the Assembly about these two reports. I was present at the drafting of the report by the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media; wonderful work was done and the report is very much up to date. I should like to give a couple of relevant examples from my country, Hungary. The last campaign, prior to the elections in April 2018, perhaps gives a good example of how an over-dominant government party basically occupied the public and private media. The...