27/06/2024 | 12:19:39 Dear colleagues, I want to join the incredibly big gratitude to all of the member states, all of the countries that provided, not only generosity, it was unprecedented, open hearts and hands that are incredibly much appreciated by all of us. I remember all those days and weeks in the beginning, how tragic, how dramatic it all was. Sometimes for Ukrainians who after days of travelling, after being internally and externally displaced, would finally have a warm tea of some people may be who... 26/06/2024 | 16:51:43 Thank this House, this Assembly, for the majority of your voices supporting an importance of sanctions, which means the majority of you are on the light and positive, right part of morality. Yes, we're all in politics, and some may say that in politics you're not making moral, right decisions. I'm sorry. No, it's not the case anymore. Business as usual shouldn't be going the way it was going for many years because business as usual always leads to feeding those who can commit crimes and run... 26/06/2024 | 10:20:35 Dear colleagues, Let me start by congratulating my co-rapporteurs here, and others, but very important similar topics that we're discussing in one debate. Different components of the crimes, legal consequences. What can we do to protect, to counter aggression, and to look deeply on the cultural identity level what the Russian aggression creates? The Report on the role of sanctions in countering the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine is covering many important crucial... 25/06/2024 | 17:12:27 Dear colleagues, Every Ukrainian woman now knows what it means to live in survival mode. Every Ukrainian woman knows how important it is to talk about human rights. Every Ukrainian woman is scared of tomorrow because we know that our relatives, our children may be under attack. Unfortunately, there is a significant number of Ukrainian women who lost their loved ones. Sometimes it's actually even maybe– it's hard to say that it's positive–but it's very tragic that sometimes when these women... 25/06/2024 | 10:41:23 Thanks. Let me congratulate our rapporteurs for providing us with this discussion. Some may say that it is very theoretical but in fact this is a very serious attempt to rethink what democracy of today we need to have. Democracy is not only a word, it is actually about institutions, it is about participation, it is about voting. And we know that our democracies, in all the member states, are having not the best times now. And there are reasons for that. This is an attempt to think what we... 18/04/2024 | 15:55:45 Dear colleagues, It is incredible but also shocking that, in fact, this convention is the first ever international treaty on artificial intelligence. And on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, of course, I want to congratulate all of us for finally having this convention, for having this report because it seems quite crazy that we have so much of the influence of artificial intelligence in our democracies but it is the only time we finally have some regulations on that. As... 18/04/2024 | 11:41:32 Dear colleagues, you know I am often asked as a Ukrainian when was that first moment when we crossed the border since the beginning of the war to the areas where they were no war. And, you know, surprisingly, I remember that moment a lot. Yes, there were queues of people. There were a lot of tears but there was also one thing that I remember very clearly that really broke my heart, it is the fact that the birds were singing on the border. For quite a long time, it was our first trip actually... 17/04/2024 | 17:14:09 Dear colleagues, Well, thinking what I want to say during this debate, I decided to look at my phone and to look through my messages, emails history with Vladimir Kara-Murza. We used to have some communication by emails, exchanging the views of what was happening in the end of 2021. In October 2021, when Mikheil Saakashvili was politically arrested in Georgia. And later when there was a lot of tensions on upcoming Russian aggression against Ukraine. And Vladimir Kara-Murza writes to me. He... 25/01/2024 | 10:48:55 Dear colleagues, It's so hard to talk about this topic. It's so hard to listen and to know the numbers, but they are all human lives. It's so hard to think about what I want to say to you today, also in being a mother myself, how hard it is to look in the children's eyes every time Ukraine is bombed. Today we talk about the biggest tragedies. But there are tragedies that may be called in a different way, but they are also tragedies. Many children of Ukraine are currently away from their... 24/01/2024 | 16:10:59 Dear colleagues, It is very important that we talked about policies and the challenges that our economies currently have. The OECD is working on that as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation. I want to bring you to history, because I think it is very important that in this organisation we remind ourselves about the purpose. As well as this organisation, the OECD was created also for managing recovery after the Second World War for different European countries. Since then, many new...