25/04/2023 | 20:03:12 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Thank you chair, We heard numerous speakers, some of them with examples of the practices of the words in their countries. On this subject are high expectations. Let us take the Netherlands as an example. The Council of Europe sent a Monitoring committee to the Netherlands as a balance of the same monitoring in Poland and Hungary. The first findings are very shameful - and that for a so called organised and fair country. There are big problems... 13/10/2022 | 15:52:18 Mister Chair, We talk today, as I look at the agenda, of a Pride event in Belgrade that is stopped by the responsible authorities. The reason was a risk of security for as well participants as possible demonstrators. A wise decision, unless you want a provocation from whatever side. Whatever cultural background there is, this can happen in a city. But the special situation is now that this issue has become a debate in the Council of Europe. The Pride organisers have already complained about... 11/10/2022 | 18:21:07 Mister Chair, The title of the report leads us to confusion. There's no answer in this total report on how Islamophobia arises. The major point, prevention, is missing. I'm a father of difficult children, four children, and one of them is married to a Muslim. Myself, I'm Jewish, and my grandson is homosexual, so we look at the same issue from different points. But still, the "why" question is missing. Let us take some typical examples: A white girl passes by a Muslim boy. A Jewish man, like... 24/06/2022 | 11:06:48 Thank you, Mister Chair. It is a free debate, so I want to bring up some some points about what has happened this week. I felt very bad about this debate we had yesterday about the United Kingdom. It looked as if this country was in a way doing such bad things that I thought, is this not overreacting to the situation? There are more important things to discuss; what I really recommend to be discussed in this debate in this Hemicycle are two situations of abuses of human rights in the... 24/06/2022 | 10:17:02 Thank you, Mister Chairman. When I see the title of this debate, it looks like I am in my former professional days in a medical congress. Whilst, on the other hand, we get repetition of yesterday's issue on misinformation. It is not that I am saying it is not good because, in fact, I really promote basic vaccinations but I still have some comments and the basis is that trust is the base of acceptance. Basic vaccines are proven [to be] fine and give great results, so they should, really... 23/06/2022 | 17:42:31 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The report and the opinion of the Committee are clear. To get democracy is hard work, to keep it needs continuous energy. It is clear and well-written that there is still a lot to do, a lot has to be improved to live up to the requirements of a democratic society. The Committee has great hope in the newly elected parliament. We support their conclusions in this. We encourage Kyrgyzstan to take the lead to change. We understand that for them a lot of steps have to... 23/06/2022 | 11:24:02 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The report titled "Ensuring accountability for the downing of flight MH17" is so correct. I'm proud to say that, yes, we will ensure that accountability will take place, will continuously take place. It's good to know that the perpetrators of this terrible murder crime will be chastened forever. The least we can do for the relatives of the innocent victims, also as a lesson that you never escape, when you think you can commit crimes on humanity. It's already... 28/04/2022 | 18:18:40 Thank you, Mr Chairman. I replaced Mr Dmytro NATALUKHA from Ukraine today. He has to return to Ukraine. That's why I'm here. I'm pleased to present my thoughts, and especially our thoughts. We looked at the situation of Georgia, and since the entry to the Council of Europe, Georgia has made constant and substantial progress in honouring its membership obligations and entry commitments to the Council of Europe. We appreciate that very much. However, some concerns remain that need to be... 27/01/2022 | 10:57:53 Thank you Mr Chair. We support strongly the work of the group because in fact we think that this is so important today. Today, we as the European Democratic Conservatives see in Ukraine a big problem existing. It is being already for many years, but today the tension is enormous. We heard our colleague yesterday saying "I'm living 40 kilometres from the border". Each day things are happening: people disappear and nobody knows where they are. They are not only soldiers, but also civilians. It... 27/01/2022 | 09:34:21 Thank you very much, Madam President. I first would like to apologise that I was late today and I'm very happy that I still have the opportunity to give the lecture. Beating Covid-19 is a big wish of all of us and most countries do a lot to prevent and to help people, but we have to accept that this will be a part of our life in the future. And that means that there is a high responsibility with our authorities. They should be aware that it is not only a medical issue, but also a social and...