03/10/2024 | 18:32:41 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, First I'd like to thank Mr Simon MOUTQUIN once again for his excellent work on the human right to food, a topic that both the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development and myself I fully support and consider of utmost importance. I'd also like to thank, once again, the group of young people now sitting in the gallery. Thank you again for the great smoothie distribution with your mobile kitchen. Maybe we can applaude them... 03/10/2024 | 17:16:13 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I have the honour of presenting to the Parliamentary Assembly a report devoted entirely to the right to food, which is one of the cornerstones of the concept of sustainable development. I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur and Former President of our Committee, Mr Simon MOUTQUIN, on his inspiration for this subject and his dedication to bringing it to a successful conclusion. I wish to start with some key figures: 2.3 billion... 01/10/2024 | 19:13:34 Thank you. Mister President, Dear colleagues, It is not easy now to speak after these two speeches. My heart is heavy. It's heavy for the tragic situation in Israel and it is heavy for the tragic situation in Gaza. We are here today not to discuss the complex, terrifying and tragic political situation in Gaza and Israel and line up behind one position or the other. Today at the Council of Europe, the cradle of human rights, it is essential that our Assembly focus and concentrate on the human... 01/10/2024 | 18:10:02 Sorry for my delay. Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I stand before you today to address an issue that strikes at the very foundations of this institution, a pillar of democratic values and human rights. Following a vote in January 2024 within this Assembly in which the majority of us opposed the ratification of credentials for Azerbaijan's delegation, the Azerbaijani government in September declared 76 of our members personae non gratae, thereby banning their entry into the... 25/06/2024 | 10:59:41 Thank you, Mr President, I will speak in Italian. [Continues in Italian] I thank my colleague and rapporteur Mr George PAPANDREOU for highlighting the importance of strengthening participatory and deliberative democracy processes to revitalize our democracies. His proposed resolution aims to explore innovative approaches that inspire democratic thinking, considering new practices and measures at the national, regional and local levels while also focusing on the importance of education... 18/04/2024 | 10:59:40 Thank you, Madam President. I'll speak in Italian. I thank my fellow rapporteurs for their excellent report, which highlights the urgent need to implement, also within the Council of Europe, an innovative and robust environmental strategy that can help to counter the devastating effects resulting from the triple planetary crisis induced by pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This is a central goal that must always be borne in mind in our parliamentary work, both at the national... 24/01/2024 | 18:40:18 Thank you, President. Colleagues, On behalf of the Group of Socialists, Democrats and Greens that I have the pleasure to represent here, I thank my fellow rapporteur Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU for having conducted this important work with great seriousness, competence, and precision. The resolution that we are called to vote on today deals with a sensitive and thorny issue, that of systematic torture, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment found in various places of detention in Europe...