26/06/2024 | 17:42:42 The majority of European countries are built on a past of conflict. Our continent is characterised by a past that is characterised by wars, but also by the search for peace to guarantee compliance with human rights and a search for a future of peaceful coexistence. Our identities and our remembrance of the past are built on conflicts between peoples, between states and between nations. The cruelty of the 20th century, which saw two world wars and totalitarian regimes, and other terrible... 19/04/2024 | 10:41:46 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. Our heartfelt congratulations on such a relevant and topical report. Online violence against children is a serious problem that can have devastating consequences for their emotional and psychological well-being. Young people are the group amongst the population who have had the most adverse effects on their mental health since the pandemic. New forms of online harassment, hate, and violence, as well as earlier and earlier access to pornography, new... 18/04/2024 | 16:14:48 Thank you very much, Madam President. I think the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be ignored. It is a revolution of the world as we know it. In fact, it is already an ongoing revolution. It is changing practically every aspect of our lives. The new European Union (EU) regulation establishes the obligations for content providers and users according to the level of artificial intelligence risk, from unacceptable to limited to high. And the latter would also include issues such... 16/04/2024 | 14:35:32 Thank you, President. Among the Council of Europe's main objectives are to defend human rights and the dignity of individuals. In practically all European countries, we have seen on ocassions how these rights have been violated. This Assembly has condemned the horrors of wars and dictatorships and it continues to defend reparation measures for victims. For example, in Spain which experienced a coup d'état, a Civil War and a dictatorship. We have the Democratic Memory Law, which the new... 15/04/2024 | 17:34:44 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Spain ranks high in transparency and democratic quality. It is among the 24 full democracies in the world. But we are a deeply decentralised country with 17 autonomous regions. The situation we have been experiencing in some regions since the arrival of the extreme right in coalition governments with the Popular Party is very worrying. Regional governments have developed all the ideology of the extreme right and attacked rights that were... 24/01/2024 | 16:41:39 Thank you very much, Chairperson, There are moments in politics where there is no place for disagreement or discrepancy. There are moments in history when politics must lead to dialogue, agreement, understanding without ambiguity, because the challenge that we are facing is greater than any of the differences that may separate us. We are living through one of those moments right now. We didn't choose this moment, we didn't cause this moment either but we are here having to face the... 13/10/2023 | 13:15:07 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) It has certainly been three years since we began to suffer the first after-effects on the mental health of our society due to the harsh confinement and devastating effects that the pandemic had on our lives. The fear, the loss of loved ones in our family and friendships; the loneliness that many young people had to face in such an important stage of socialization in their lives; the need to resort to social networks as a vehicle to relate to... 11/10/2023 | 20:03:28 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) There is espionage; this report does not question it, but rather its use without guarantees. I would like to state that in Spain political parties and their activists enjoy full political rights, regardless of their ideological orientation, and regardless of their pro-independence stance. The Spanish government has provided the greatest possible transparency in relation to the espionage and has always maintained the will to clarify the facts... 11/10/2023 | 19:41:55 Thank you, President. Thank you for this very real, difficult report. Just like life itself. We are talking about women with disabilities and these women are clearly subject to double discrimination. There is also a problem of gender-based violence. In other words, their disabilities are further highlighted by the social ills they suffer from. We have seen far too many examples of women being killed in examples of domestic violence, simply because they are women. Women are victims of... 10/10/2023 | 16:54:09 I would like to thank Mr Samad SEYIDOV for this interesting and realistic report of the European political situation. Little by little, the social and political climate has been getting worse in various fields, where the clear and decisive roadmap: the extreme right, has been gaining ground in the fight against democratic, social values and what I would say are fundamental rights. There are no halfway houses here. In the context of questioning human rights, there has to be a resolute defence...