26/06/2025 | 16:45:04 Thank you, Madam President [spoken in French]. Dear colleagues, I want to start by thanking the rapporteur for the truly timely and necessary resolution. It is not about modernising rules and procedures. It's about making democracy real, to make it accessible, fair and equal for everyone. It's about recognising that political participation must reflect the people we serve, not just the privileged group that can afford it. I want to start especially for my colleague, Ms Martina KEMPF, who... 25/06/2024 | 19:24:41 Thank you very much. I want to thank all the supportive voices that I heard in the debate, and especially also Canada, because you raised issues that are almost forgotten sometimes in the debate, like the legal pathways via resettlement that are not even more in the core of discussion when we talk about asylum seekers in Europe. And it was also good to hear from you that you can do without a safe country concept, which brings me to the critical voices, where I also have the impression that... 25/06/2024 | 18:07:45 Thank you, dear President, dear members of the Assembly, dear colleagues. As we are gathered here today, millions of people are fleeing war, persecution and human rights violations, and only a small percentage of those fleeing are seeking refuge in Europe from war-torn countries mainly, like Ukraine, Syria, and Afghanistan. Protection seekers on European soil often experience violence. Also from national police especially at borders via pushbacks. Chaos and suffering are the consequences... 24/04/2023 | 16:15:28 Thank you. Dear Secretary General, The summit in Reykjavík is a precious opportunity to be a starting point to strengthen human rights and democracy, but the path towards the summit led us, at the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, to be concerned about certain issues to be omitted, such as the state of affairs regarding a commission on democracy; such as a new generation of important human rights on, for example, environmental issues, being omitted; and also the establishment of... 12/10/2022 | 20:08:02 Thank you very much. Thanks to the colleagues. I'm grateful to hear in many speeches an amount of support by many of you who agree with our reports. I wanted to react to the critical statements if they raised concrete arguments. As to Croatia and Malta, I completely agree that we need European solutions and acknowledge also that some countries have to deal with more arrivals than others, so it is a call for solidarity also from my side. But a higher number of people seeking asylum can never... 12/10/2022 | 18:25:57 Thank you, dear President. As we sit here, more than 100 million people worldwide are displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, or other human rights abuses. Most of these suffering individuals who flee stay close to their home country. They are also most often in dire and dangerous situations. Only a small percentage of them have the resources, the strength, and the courage to continue to seek security for themselves and their children. What are they experiencing on their way to... 12/10/2022 | 11:28:24 Thank you, dear President, dear colleagues and especially the speaker before me. The report we discussed today leaves no space for doubts. Over the last few years, Türkiye has increasingly denied its population human rights and rule of law. Thus, on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I would like to express deep concerns regards Türkiye's respective failure to comply with its obligations as a Council of Europe member State. I will focus on the Istanbul Convention... 24/01/2022 | 18:46:50 Thank you, dear President, dear Madam commissioner, dear colleagues. The new impact on migration and asylum sounds ,for many, fine on the first sight, but on asylum when we see the current situation of refugees and their chance for protection, what we should have in mind for them to be possible to have on European soil, it is time to become attentive and put things straight. Also in writing in the new Pact, what situation do I mean besides many other human rights violations? I mean those... 30/09/2021 | 12:29:57 Thank you dear Mrs President, dear colleagues, best regards from Vienna. When we talk about West Balkans, diplomatic phrases are used in high quantity. We talk about 'strengthening accession prospects' and 'bringing the West Balkans closer to the EU'. But what does 'prospects' mean for a citizen of one of the western Balkan states? What does it mean to young people who struggle for a job, to the residents here who can barely breathe the air in their cities? I believe we should focus our work... 24/06/2021 | 12:00:56 Thank you Mr Chairman. Dear Minister, Dear colleagues, All authorities from Greece have said enough. Also many of the European Union and for member States, as they think that the situation for refugees and migrants on the EU border in Greece and also on the islands is getting better. I believe that we are here to protect and promote human rights and to guarantee especially that Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights is always respected. We cannot accept only that things are...