09/04/2025 | 10:49:54 Thank you very much, President. I'm from a political body in the Netherlands that has regularly debated on the issue of integrity, which is the Senate. We do not have outspoken corruption cases, but we do have integrity issues. And when you do not treat it, it's a fungi that rots the foundations of our democratic system. And also for our Organisation, it works the same way. We can only achieve the values we strive for if we also make them apply to ourselves. Our Council has been associated... 31/01/2025 | 10:54:17 Thank you very much, Chair. When we were preparing this report, I very often had to think about my good friend's daughter, Luna. I have known Luna all her life. She's 27 and she contracted Covid and went from an extremely vibrant social person working in child's healthcare to a person that is now almost full time at home. She lost her job, she has to sleep every two hours. And although she's an extremely positive person and tries to make the best of it, it's for me so clear that she's lost... 29/01/2025 | 18:41:45 Thank you very much President. I have to say – I just loved this report, and I couldn't agree more with the rapporteur. I love it because it is really fact-based on our demographic challenges and shows a wonderful, realistic attitude to migration and towards solutions that we can choose from. It also enlightens the positive spirit that most ordinary people adopt when they start living together. I mean when I was in hospital this summer, who came to bring me my food in the evening? It was my... 28/01/2025 | 18:47:32 Thank you, President. A lot has been said and I really want to applaud my colleagues to speak words that de-escalate the situation and that give a broad understanding to both parties in this conflict. Some remarks were made about my person. It is my firm belief that you can never, never be associated with a terrorist group or be responsible for a genocide if you are fighting for the humanitarian laws that were made especially to prevent the organisation. And this report is about sustaining... 28/01/2025 | 16:49:47 Thank you very much, Chair. I am always confused with the buttons. When we convened in October, I talked about the children who are losing at an alarming rate their arms and their legs in Gaza. And since then, we must realise that had we filled a chair, every chair in this room is a child that has lost either an arm or a leg or both. So we should not be silent when the children die. We should act and protect. And that is what this report is about. Yesterday I spoke to Abed AL ATTAR, and he's... 04/10/2024 | 10:20:40 Well, without a doubt, we today have access to a diverse information thanks to the metaverse. It has an endless opportunity for humankind. But we also have to recognise that the things that happen in the meta universe also happen in the real world. We all could read about the influence of Mr Andrew TATE on young boys and young boys translating that to female-unfriendly responses in Australia. So women are leaving now the educational sector, and that is, of course, not the way we want to go... 03/10/2024 | 17:28:43 Thank you, President. So we talked about a wonderful report about the right to food. I am so happy. I'm going to wave to you, like the MakeSense guys. I will tell a little bit more about you in a minute. Since I have only one kidney left, I am unable to eat healthy if I buy my food in a general supermarket. And that goes for a lot of people, because we don't have healthy food on average in our supermarkets anymore. And I'm not the only one. A lot of people who have little money know about... 01/10/2024 | 19:41:15 Thank you, Mister President. I want to thank my colleagues for a civilised debate. I think many new topics came to the table, like the demonstrators and the safety of them, the journalists. And we have a lot of work to do in this Council about the Middle East and situations that arise from this conflict. I think it is really good that we discuss this topic. I'm looking forward to discuss it again in January. I really hope we'll spend these months thinking about, as my Spanish colleague... 01/10/2024 | 18:40:01 Thank you, President. It is a heavy responsibility to open this debate and to ask for your urgent attention to the situation which is evolving now and is worsening by the hour. We are watching an extreme escalation of violence in the Middle East. With the escalation of the might of Israel’s military operations in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and the next few days will be crucial. It is a conflict with very deep roots and wounds on all sides. We are divided, but however difficult, we must try today... 27/06/2024 | 15:47:16 Thank you, President. Cyprus was established in 1960 as an independent state with ensuring equal rights and responsibilities to both the Turkish and the Cypriot citizens. And yet, already soon after the establishment of the state, the people of Cyprus were confronted with several violent conflicts resulting in 1974 in occupying of parts of its territories by Türkiye. In 2024, we are still confronted with the painful remnants of this conflict. The report on the return of Varosha to its lawful...