21/04/2026 | 18:33:48 Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, rapporteur, dear Mr Francesco VERDUCCI, for being so inclusive during the work on this report, listening to so many voices and really bringing together a very good document. And we hear during our speeches, dialogue, training sessions, you know, "let's build bridges". But what if your neighbour wants to wage a holy war on your country? That's what's happening with the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch KIRILL called... 21/04/2026 | 10:12:09 I'd like to thank Madam rapporteur for this very timely report. And I think this report is probably one of the most, I would say, eye-catching and attention-catching of this session. And you can see that from the number of people who signed up to speak today. And this report clearly shows that violence and hate speech against politicians are no longer isolated phenomena. And it's a growing, systematic problem, and it directly affects not just us as people, but it affects democracy and the... 20/04/2026 | 12:28:28 Madam President, Dear colleagues, I'd like to stop at two points. First, Hungarian elections. I had a chance to be part of the observation mission that was chaired by Mr Pablo HISPÁN, the rapporteur. And I want to congratulate the Hungarian people with this democratic process. And we see that the power is being transferred in a peaceful way and we have to also acknowledge it. And also I want to underline that although I saw so many negative posters of President Volodymyr ZELENSKYY, President... 28/01/2026 | 10:35:00 Thank you, Chair. Dear Ms Sona GHAZARYAN, congratulations on this report and congratulations on yesterday's elections as the chair of the Sub-Committee on Youth and the Society of the Future. Of course, it's a very timely report. Actually, today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is setting a gold standard by moving from just the engagement of young people to real shared responsibility in decision-making processes. This report continues the standards that we already adopted... 27/01/2026 | 18:34:40 Sure. My mum is a big fan of this Assembly and she asked me to thank all of you, to all of the countries that are helping Ukraine with humanitarian aid right now, that are collecting money for generators, that are sending generators to different cities, to Kyiv, where I reside. And I will come back after this week to my apartment that is completely dependent on the heat and power plant that is completely destroyed. Probably not repairable until the next heating season, but we will survive... 02/10/2025 | 10:34:02 Thank you, President. I would like to thank Mr Iulian BULAI for bringing this extremely important debate and resolution to this Assembly. In two minutes, to explain Russian threats, it's quite a challenge, but I'll try. And I want to bring you to 24 November 2015. A Russian Su-24 violated Turkish airspace. It was taken down in five minutes. In five minutes. Do you know how many times Russian planes violated airspace of Turkey? None. So that just gives a lesson not to be afraid and punch a... 01/10/2025 | 16:58:38 Madame la Présidente, Thank you, dear colleagues, for this debate. I still see a lot of people in the list who wanted to speak, so maybe, indeed, you could publish your speech. Actually, I have a short video for the young people of your country, just explaining about the debates and what you wanted to say and what you feel and what we have voted, because that's what communication is about. And I mean I carefully listened and I haven't heard any of the speakers saying that we should not... 01/10/2025 | 15:36:01 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, distinguished Minister, We have some young people on the balcony looking at us that came for this debate. We do have the representatives of the Youth Council. And actually it's the first topic, the first debate that was chosen in line of the resolution that was passed before for the better youth engagement with this Parliamentary Assembly. So this topic, Youth Movements for Democracy, wasn't my choice or the choice of the Committee. It was the... 01/10/2025 | 12:01:36 Dear colleagues, dear President, First of all, thank you for this idea. Indeed, hopefully when we vote for this resolution, we will put it into action, and every Autumn part-session we will commemorate the memory of those who put their life at risk to report, to bring the truth. This commemoration day will be called "Victory for Viktoria" in the memory of Viktoria ROSHCHYNA. At 1 p.m. we will be opening an exhibition dedicated to those Ukrainian journalists who are still in captivity. But... 01/10/2025 | 11:09:46 Thank you, Mr President. Thank you, colleagues. Indeed, this Assembly proves over and over again that freedom of speech is very important. And now, we will be descussing and debating and, hopefully, will support the resolution that I prepared. And it starts with Journalists Matter, and journalists do matter. If you look at the numbers of journalists that were killed under different circumstances, especially during the time of war in the last few years, the numbers have drastically gone up...