10/04/2025 | 17:45:07 Now. Mister President, thank you. With all due respect to our French colleagues, I do not know whether this initiative taken by President MACRON really has a European dimension or interest, or if it is more about President MACRON in fact. Is it more about himself, him wanting to play a role that will be remembered, that will go down in Europe's history? I do not know, quite honestly, but I have a lot of doubts let's say, taking into account the personality of President MACRON. I think it is... 09/04/2025 | 19:40:34 Thank you, Madam Chair. It may be relevant that I speak here. The European Court of Human Rights is, without a doubt, the most important body of the Council of Europe, but that does not mean that this Assembly nor the Court nor the Committee of Ministers or anyone else can do something that the Convention itself does not provide for. That is to say that the judgments of the Court do not allow for a partisan enforcement by the Council of Europe. They don't allow such because the states that... 31/01/2025 | 11:57:01 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I would like to share some thoughts with you during this free debate here in the Chamber not on things that we have talked about in earlier debates about Georgia, for example, but in a general sense. Let's just take Georgia as an example as a case study and perhaps extrapolate from that. What I would say is I consider, and I believe there would be agreement on this issue, but it may be that the Council of Europe does not wish to admit into its ranks countries... 29/01/2025 | 17:48:53 "Merci, Monsieur le President" [Thank you, Mister President in French]. I will speak in Spanish. I would just like to say that I feel rather baffled by what I am hearing, having feeling baffled by what I read in the text, which has been presented to us today. Now, when it comes to the credentials of the powers that have been presented by the Republic of Georgia's delegation following on from elections that were held back in October of last year, it is clear that this is the question... 28/06/2024 | 11:06:47 Thank you, Mister President. I'm surprised to see that in this session, speaking to this debate, and about this report, the European far-left should bring up human rights, and their violation under certain political regimes, when until 1989, as far as I'm aware, human rights were being violated in Eastern Europe, under far-left governments. And in Western Europe subversive far-left terorism also violated human rights, and those rights continue to beviolated in other parts of the world, such... 26/06/2024 | 18:39:03 Mister President [in French]. It's clear that reconciliation and reparation are vital after a conflict, but you cannot get reconciliation when one of the parties is determined to continue with the conflict and act consequently. This is the situation in Spain when it comes to Catalan separatism after a serious – non-war – conflict, which took place in 2017 but involving sedition and cessation, which led to the criminal convictions of separatist Catalan leaders and politicians, convictions from... 18/04/2024 | 11:20:48 Thank you, Madam President. Fortunately, I am not in Brussels. As a result, I do not think we can expect a crazed Burgomaster to burst in and try to stop me from exercising my freedom of expression. So, I am grateful to this Assembly's hospitality for me to speak freely and with immunity, which goes with my job. The creation of fundamental rights brings with it a series of problems, one of them includes the very foundation of these rights. This is a serious challenge. Fundamental rights are... 25/01/2024 | 19:27:23 Thank you very much Mister President. There are many statements made in these two draft resolutions. We can compare them and agree that freedom of expression and freedom of information are essential in our democracies. Furthermore, we can agree when it comes to the draft resolution on SLAPPs, the types of measures that are required here. Having said that, we also need to acknowledge that these two draft resolutions have to be compared to the whole question of hate speech, which is... 24/01/2024 | 19:35:39 Thank you Madam President, I think that all of the member states of the Council of Europe, and all those of us who meet in this chamber, all those of us who form part of this Parliamentary Assembly, are all, of course, opposed to torture and/or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Not only because our states have signed up to international conventions in this regard, but also because it really is a fundamental issue. We're talking here about respect for human beings and elementary... 11/10/2023 | 17:52:08 Thank you very much, Madam President. This report refers to an important issue. It could have been addressed, I think, generally, a bit like cybersecurity and fundamental rights. It could have been approached that way, but unfortunately, that is not what happened here. This report is a report based on isolated facts related to some countries, the Pegasus system, when we gained cognisance that some governments were using this spyware in 2021. Now, with regard to Spain, I should point out...