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... 25/06/2025 | 17:19:07 Thank you very much, President. As you know I've been a rapporteur for the humanitarian crisis for children and women in Gaza, so let me tell you about the children. Children have the right to go to school, yet all schools and universities in Gaza have been bombed to pieces. Children have the right to family, yet 40 000 Palestinian children are orphans. Children have the right to safety, health and life and yet 15 000 children are dead. Thousands and thousands of children have lost an arm or... 23/06/2025 | 12:12:44 Yes, I think I'm live. Thank you very much, President. And thank you very much to the Standing Committee and the Bureau for doing a wonderful job. I am very impressed if you read the report about what we all do here. And I think one of the things that Mr Frank SCHWABE already mentioned is we live in extremely dangerous times, times that attack the very fundamentals of what we are doing here. And sometimes you think you are having reasonable arguments to start a dialogue on certain things that... 10/04/2025 | 15:59:07 Thank you very much, President. In January we adopted the report on the humanitarian crisis for women and children in Gaza, looking especially at the dramatic effects for women, children, and the hostages. And we promised then to follow everything that was going on in the area. Soon after our plenary, a much needed ceasefire was achieved and NGOs could bring in goods, take care of the wounded, bring extra wounded abroad, and dead hostages could be brought home, and luckily alive ones were... 10/04/2025 | 10:49:57 Thank you very much. Well, it's not very often as chair of a committee that you have a rapporteur that is so distinguished and knowledgeable on a topic as Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVAY is. And I'm so proud of how you managed the report. You did it together with our colleagues from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. You prepared many meetings, and on topic it was also very good. I'm happy to stand here together. The report was therefore also adopted unanimously in the Committee. I...