27/01/2023 | 11:38:04 Thank you, colleagues, I really hope that Ms Grande will be able to watch these debates and hear all the valuable contributions that you expressed during these debates. Of course, universities in Europe had been for centuries centres of progress, of free thinking, and of course, now universities give critical thinking to be resistant to propaganda, to populism, and to think about new ideas and how to live in the 21st century. I am really thankful for the members of the Parliamentary Assembly... 27/01/2023 | 10:59:46 Thank you, Chair., I'm honoured to present this report on behalf of Ms Marte Grande as a Chair of the Committee on Culture, Educational Media and Sport. First of all let me thank all of you who are here for the last debate and last resolutions to be adopted in this winter session. The committee unanimously adopted the report of Ms Marte Grande last December, following numerous hearings organised in Paris, Strasbourg, Rome over the past year. We would also like to thank Professor Michele... 26/01/2023 | 12:59:30 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Every Ukrainian wakes up every day with gratitude for being alive. We are clearly aware that our lives and the lives of our families can be destroyed in an instant. Unfortunately, this is the reality. On a holiday afternoon, January 14, when families with their children were resting at home, a Russian rocket targeted the residential building in the city of Dnipro killing at least 46 people and injuring another 80. 11 people have not yet been... 25/01/2023 | 12:41:38 These little things, you know, are following us every day. We spend with smartphones probably more time than we spend with our families and friends. Of course, modern technologies can bring a lot of good, especially in the medical sphere. I can say for sure, I'm coming from a doctor's family, and, really, modern technology does do a lot of good. But of course, we need to understand that data protection is also very much important. Also, from the debates as well, it's my own opinion that we... 24/01/2023 | 17:45:59 Thank you Madam Chair. First of all I'd like to thank my dear friend Ms Fiona O'LOUGHLIN for this comprehensive work and very well-written report. Of course the past year was extremely difficult for Europe. The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on my country has sown instability across the continent. While we each on our front restrain the aggressor, Europe must react and act properly - and the Council of Europe as well. Everyone should understand that if Ukraine does not defeat... 24/01/2023 | 10:15:33 Mister Chair, First of all, I would like to thank Ms Petra BAYR for her report, which sadly turned out to be extremely relevant today, of course, because of the war in Ukraine. But it does not influence just Ukrainian women, it is a problem all over the world. Today I am wearing embroidery made by Kosovan women that were raped during the war. The ongoing aggression against Ukraine has been accompanied by a consistent pattern of sexual violence. This issue for me, as a woman and a mother, is... 13/10/2022 | 11:08:53 Thank you, Mister President, Dear Rapporteur, Mister ZINGERIS, I am delighted to open this debate, especially after such a powerful intervention of Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZELENSKYY, for the first time speaking in this Assembly. The ALDE Group of course will be supporting this resolution and the wording is strong and, I think, also to political committee that made these wording even stronger. So, I urge you to support also the amendments that were carried by the political committee... 22/06/2022 | 18:53:15 Yes, thank you, I will be much quicker than that because I understand it has been a long debate. I thank you for your contribution to this debate. It is very important for all that you said, and moreover, it is even more important what you did for Ukraine and other countries that experienced such tragedies as war of aggression. And about the topic that I was carrying in my resolution and my report, I would like to say, that having women at the table of negotiations means not just because... 22/06/2022 | 15:57:56 Thank you so much dear colleagues. It's my first report and it became very personal. I never knew that I would be finishing in it during the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Urkaine. And actually when I was returning from the fact-finding mission on this report from Netherlands, I was travelling from Amsterdam and before that from The Hague, I landed in Boryspil, in Kyiv, and that was the last flight on the 23rd of February. It was the last flight that landed in the capital of... 21/06/2022 | 19:16:53 Dear Colleagues, It is very obvious that the Russian regime is very bad at building democracy and very good at building Gulags. Filtration camps, torture, kidnapping, forced deportations, putting people into prison for 10 or 15 years just for calling a war a war, closing independent media: that is what the modern Russia of the 21st century looks like right now, but also the territories that it occupies. Crimea experienced these gross violations of human rights eight years ago. Crimean Tatars...