25/06/2026 | 11:28:46 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the Rapporteur Ms Pelin YILIK for the important and deeply human-centred report. Yes, very challenging, but very important. Because we are all humans and we don't have to choose which race we are, which colour of skin we are; we are all humans and we are equal. Access to healthcare is a fundamental right. We talked about this, established by international law and also affirmed by the Assembly, but yet it remains systematically... 24/06/2026 | 19:37:46 Dear colleagues, first of all, I would like to thank our Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development and our Secretariat. It was very challenging, but I think the outcome will be very good, thanks to your contributions. And also I want to thank you for your vital contributions and you speaking on the whole. Each speech was very, very vital and very important from different angles of view. But I also want to thank you for your deeds, for your countries, for your people and... 24/06/2026 | 18:32:00 Mister President, Dear colleagues, War is fought with tanks, missiles and drones. But war can also be fought with hunger. Today, from Ukraine to Gaza, from North Africa to the Middle East and Asia, millions of people are facing food insecurity because of wars and because of conflicts. Not because there is not enough food in the world, but because food is being deliberately used as an instrument of domination, pressure or deprivation. 69% of people facing acute food shortages live in countries... 24/06/2026 | 15:46:51 Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ms Deborah BERGAMINI, for this truly urgent report because artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our democracies today at a speed that our regulations simply cannot match. And I'm currently working, as a rapporteur, on preparing the opinion of the Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation on the role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in assessing the... 23/04/2026 | 15:54:26 Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO, dear Mr Gustaf GÖTHBERG, I would like to express, on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, many thanks to our Rapporteur. The core idea of this report is to expand tools for confiscating assets where there are reasonable grounds for suspicion without a criminal conviction and introduce simplified cross-border asset tracing mechanisms. This is essential. Let me again reiterate what Mr Gustaf GÖTHBERG said, that 2% of criminal proceedings... 22/04/2026 | 11:36:20 Dear President, Dear colleagues, Today we discuss two very important reports by Ms Zita GURMAI. They are inseparable. One defines the standards and the other shows distance between the standard and reality. And the reality is really frightening. In more than half of our countries, rape is still not defined based on consent. That means a woman can experience violence and the law may still deny that the crime occurred. Let me again reiterate the stark fact indicated in the report. Only one in... 21/04/2026 | 18:05:52 Distinguished colleagues, I thank the rapporteur, Mr Francesco VERDUCCI, for this important report. Freedom of religion or belief is a fundamental right. Today, in the context of Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, it is under direct attack. Russia uses religion as a tool of control. It is clear that the Moscow Patriarchate acts as an instrument of state ideology, promoting the so-called "Russkiy Mir" ("Russian world") in support of the aggression. Since 2014, in the occupied parts of... 21/04/2026 | 16:39:15 Mister President, Distinguished colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur Ms Elisabetta GARDINI for her very timely report and my colleague Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK for her opinion. As violence and hate speech against politicians is no longer abstract, it is a daily reality across all Europe. Online and offline threats, harassment, intimidation, the release of private information. In my case, follow me to find out my place of living and public release by journalists with Russian links of... 29/01/2026 | 20:13:08 Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2. Thank you, Mr President, Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Paul GALLES, for drawing the Assembly’s attention to the European Social Charter as the most comprehensive legal framework for the protection of economic and social rights in Europe. Democracy cannot exist if people lack the most basic conditions for dignity, security, work, housing, social protection. The Charter rightly places these rights at the centre of... 27/01/2026 | 16:19:00 Madam President, dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur Mr Damien COTTIER for such a crucial resolution and the big work on ensuring, with this report, that elections in times of crisis must guarantee the free and expression of all voters, which is the foundation of democracies. Across Europe, elections today face unprecedented challenges: disinformation, foreign interference, cyber attacks, security risks. The rapporteur emphasises those risks. We must take into account the...