23/04/2026 | 17:47:26 Thank you, Mister Chair. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the future, it is part of everyday life. AI is used to create texts, images, musics, and even write code. But what happens to copyright? Technology has developed faster than our laws, and only now are we starting to think about many problems related to AI. The basic idea of copyright is simple. It protects the creator of creative work and ensures they get credit and possibly payment for their work. AI challenges this idea. Who... 01/10/2025 | 13:26:12 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Mister President, dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur for this important and timely report. Freedom of opinion is an important value. A journalist´s job is to inform about things and events. Without journalists, we will not get accurate information about the horrors happening in Ukraine. International law and humanitarian law protect journalists in times of war. But what does Russian do? It disregards its own obligations... 09/04/2025 | 10:47:19 Mister President, dear colleagues, I would like to thank Mr Frank SCHWABE for this timely and important report. At a time when our European values of the rule of law and democracy are being questioned, we need to step up our efforts in defending what we stand for. Corruption is a disease that kills democracy. The Council of Europe and this Assembly have done a lot of work to improve our measures to counter corruption, but research shows that we are far from being free from corruption in our... 19/04/2024 | 11:09:52 Thank you, Mister President, Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur for this important report on protecting children against online violence. The Internet is both good and bad at the same time. Today children use mobile phones a lot. Even very young children can use the internet and mobile phones. They really carry around disturbing content, bullying, and violence in their pockets. But are mobile phones really needed at school? I think, no. Supervision is needed and the... 23/06/2023 | 12:39:18 Thank you. Digitalisation has made life easier. Everybody knows this, but not everyone can use digitalisation. A large number of people are without digitalisation. Advice and teaching about digitalisation is needed. Advice must be really applied and understandable. Medical information is digital. Not everyone has a computer at home. I think municipalities, cities, hospitals, and maybe pharmacists could help people. Pharmacies, yes are important places. People think that pharmacies could... 24/06/2022 | 10:46:27 Thank you. I come from Finland. I have previously worked as a pharmacist, and worked in a pharmacy. Pharmacy and healthcare staff have a lot to do with vaccines. Vaccinations according to the vaccination programme are free of charge in Finland. Vaccinations are given at health care facilities. In addition, you can buy vaccines for tourism, for example, from a pharmacy. It is important that vaccines and the right up-to-date information on vaccines are available. There were also nasty phenomena... 15/03/2022 | 18:22:20 Thank you. In autumn, I visited Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, when the city was awarded the European Prize by the Council of Europe, by us. That beautiful and progressive city and its friendly people made a big impression on me. Back then, hardly anyone could imagine what would happen in six months. Not in Europe at least. War in Europe is a terrible thing. There are now domestic refugees from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Mariupol' and many other places in Khmelnitsky. For many refugees, Khmelnitsky is a...