12/10/2023 | 16:02:14 Sometimes we use a rather dangerous saying that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Naturally then one begins to wonder what the road to heaven is paid with. I dare propose a different definition, where I believe that the road to hell is paved with excuses. I'm proud to speak today on behalf of the European liberals, because in this report, and both in our practice and in this report, when it comes to Ukraine, we are not looking for excuses for inaction but we are looking for... 11/10/2023 | 17:20:33 Leading up to the ambitious Reykjavík Summit, we were wondering whether a certain identity crisis that the Council of Europe may or may not be suffering from would be addressed successfully and whether it would be solved. That is actually on these kinds of issues that the strength of this institution and the strength of this institution's capacity to address two key questions in its jurisdiction lie: 1) human rights protection and addressing human rights violations and 2) democratic standards... 09/10/2023 | 16:43:52 Thank you, Mr President. Strategic ambiguity is a term invented by diplomats to, at best, buy time and at worst, justify the policy of appeasement whose failure we have seen for centuries but most recently, of course, on European soil. And strategic ambiguity is something that, unfortunately, is practised in the Western Balkan region, as well, particularly in the last years. However, at the same time, Kosovo's constitution contains the European Convention on Human Rights while the citizens of... 21/06/2023 | 15:21:46 Well, thank you, Madam President for the extraordinarily brave vision you presented us here today. Building on to that, considering the challenges that Europe and the whole world faces in light of the Russian aggression on Ukraine, and considering the level of Russian influence that continues in countries, particularly of Eastern Europe and even more so in the Western Balkans, I have a question: How do you assess the success of current efforts led by several countries, including Slovenia, to... 26/04/2023 | 19:31:01 Thank you Madam Chair, With the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights - we sometimes may be looking at this as a legal, legislative or even logistical question. However, I believe that it's actually, as the report says, a primordial political question. It truly depends on something that we are maybe sheepishly only addressing both in the report, and in this chamber, the question of political pressure, and the capacity of this room to place the political pressure on...