02/10/2025 | 19:37:34 I will be as quick as I can because I have two reports and then I have to say something about Mr Stefan SCHENNACH. So I hope for a little bit of your lenience. The joint debate is ending and I thank everybody for your opinions and your thoughts on both of the reports. I really love to hear how you look at this from different perspectives and how it is perceived in all the world, including Canada. Even in relatively prosperous Europe, the right to adequate housing and the right to health for... 02/10/2025 | 17:14:38 Thank you very much. I want to thank Ms Ingjerd Schie SCHOU for preparing this wonderful report. We underline the challenges and responsibilities highlighted and we will miss her wonderful contributions to this Assembly. Across Europe and in my own country, intolerance is gaining ground. Paradoxically, a tolerant society must be very intolerant of intolerance if it is to defend itself. Only by doing so can we safeguard a free and open Europe. Parties are meant to mobilise citizens, nurture... 02/10/2025 | 12:16:42 Thank you, President. Palestinian journalists are eyes on the truth in this war. 40 have already died this year, 200 more in total. These are grave violations by Israel of international law. Article 79 of the Geneva Conventions is explicitly there to find out about war crimes and acts of genocide. So what have Palestinian journalists found so far? They have found ambulance workers who've been shot to death while they tried to rescue their countrymen. They have found out that 80% of Gaza has... 01/10/2025 | 16:30:12 Thank you, President. I have to say, after Baroness Ruth HUNT spoke so well, what can I say? But yet, I will use some words. Across Europe, young people are standing up against the injustices of our time. It is indeed a very political generation that is stepping up. They fight against the genocide in Gaza, they fight against climate change, they fight against the ongoing violence towards women, and most of all, they fight against the lack of political responses of my generation to the... 01/10/2025 | 13:38:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear friends and colleagues,Only through the actions of brave journalists do we hear about war crimes and genocide. Perpetrators of these crimes dream of a world without critical reporters. Journalists in Ukraine face life-threatening risks while reporting on the genocide being committed. This is nothing new. The Holodomor was reported to the Western world in 1933 by journalist Gareth JONES. His bravery would ultimately cost him his life... 30/09/2025 | 18:35:21 Thank you very much, Chair. This debate is not about right or left. It's about democracy and the rule of law. And since Hungary adopted its new constitution, power has concentrated in one majority and checks and balances have weakened. Critical voices in the judiciary, media and civil society are silenced. Democracy, the rule of law and human rights, including freedom of expression and assembly, are under threat in Hungary. The Hungarian state dominates the advertising market. Resources are... 26/06/2025 | 10:33:41 Thank you very much, speaker. To my honourable colleague on the other side. I don't think you will ever stop people who want to look for peace and happiness in their lives. We have thousands of years of history of people migrating from one place to the other looking for a better condition. So if you want to do something about that, the solution can never ever be to let them drown at sea. It is very important that we see the people who travel still as people. They are normal people, families... 25/06/2025 | 20:59:15 Thank you very much. I want to thank Ms Gabrielle CATHALA and Mr George LOUCAIDES about the principal point that it is a human rights situation, if you look at the energy transition, and that was the basis of the report. We try to work on many instruments that can address these kinds of things that you mentioned. For example, if you talk about zero-emission zones, of course you need to help people with fossil fuel cars to get other cars, to get good public transport or to get other means of... 25/06/2025 | 20:19:09 Thank you very much, Chair. I am sorry for my colleagues that you have to watch me again today, but this is how the planning goes when we are in a week like this week. So thank you very much. This is actually a report I am very, very happy to present here, because it is a topic that is extremely, extremely alive in our societies. We debate the clean energy transition and any results for our population on a daily basis. When I started working 20 years ago or 30 years ago, I started working on... 25/06/2025 | 19:26:56 Thank you very much. I want to ask for a few more minutes afterwards, as this is Pierre-Alain's last gathering here, and he has done a lot. The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has examined a report on social mobilisation, social unrest and police reaction in the Council of Europe member states. We did so, amongst other things, in Helsinki, and we have noted that no amendments were put forward for this report. And I think it's important, as Chair of the...