01/10/2026 | 19:10:10 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I'd like to start by saying that Mr Michael BARRETT mentioned something very important and I think maybe from this we can try to find some answers in our debate. He told us that he has five children but now it's very expensive to have kids. I think this answer gives us some answers about how one pillar is the economic status, about the demographic and about the family. If you give a child an empty white piece of paper, they paint a house. For me... 01/10/2026 | 18:00:54 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, We are here tonight, this afternoon, and I would like to thank you for your participation in this debate. For, in my opinion, a very crucial, important political issue as well: the demographic challenges in our countries and, of course, how we can create more family-friendly policies. Everybody knows about the demographic collapse that we have in many countries, and there are so many reasons. Maybe some of them are political reasons; maybe some of... 01/10/2026 | 17:15:50 When you want to be a democracy, you have to be there for all citizens. When you want to be a democracy, you must have policies for all citizens. When you want to be a democracy, you must protect all citizens. When you are a democracy, and you participate in international organisations that defend democracy, you have to give rights to minorities and to people that want to actually have their own self-identification. Now, the position of Türkiye to the LGBTQI community, is that this is... 01/10/2026 | 11:43:00 Thank you, Mister President. Allow me to speak in Greek. When one is a politician, one has to improve the lives of young people. These are young people who are seeking a better life, a better future, and they're counting on us. And they can't have a better life without a better environment. The environment is not something which should be an issue for debate in congresses or encyclopedias. The environment demonstrates that in the absence of action, we will lose. And young people are calling... 29/09/2026 | 20:13:09 Dear colleagues, As I was saying, I was born after the restoration of democracy in Greece. Our constitution was changed several times, but it is a very strong constitution. We recognise the Muslim minority in Thrace. That is a minority with structural rights, rights which are respected in a democratic country. In Greece, we do not have Roma as such. We have Greeks who speak Greek. When we talk about the Roma minority, we are the first government since 2019 to have recognised their rights and... 29/09/2026 | 18:18:03 Thank you, Madam President Dear colleagues, I would first like to congratulate our rapporteur, Lord Leslie GRIFFITHS, on this excellent work and, of course, for us, it's very important, because not only do we welcome this report, but we accept the balance of this report, which goes well beyond migration policy in the narrow sense. It addresses a broader political question. How can we strengthen social cohesion and democratic engagement in increasingly diverse European societies? The report... 29/09/2026 | 16:50:09 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, The report prepared by Mr Jan Filip LIBICKI and adopted by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development is timely and necessary: it is a wake-up call to raise awareness about one of the most devastating consequences of the war of aggression carried out by the Russian Federation in Ukraine for more than four and half years. There are more than two million veterans in Ukraine right now, and the number of persons with... 25/06/2026 | 18:22:54 Thank you. Dear colleagues, After the smuggling for the migrants, refugees, after the human trafficking, the new theme that we have is violent pornography. And I would like to congratulate Ms Laura CASTEL, not only for her commitment and path for this report, because this report is one step, two steps, maybe three steps forward from today for tomorrow. We have not only to protect women, we have to protect our society. Behind violent pornography there are men and dirty minds and huge amounts... 25/06/2026 | 15:55:41 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, As I can see on the list of the speakers, I can see only two men. So I think that we, as men, we have to be on the front line in this issue and we have to fight more to have equal justice for women. First of all, I would like to congratulate Ms Aysu BANKOĞLU, as rapporteur, and the whole staff of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, for this report on this very sensitive issue. Dear friends, two years ago, one woman, one girl from the... 25/06/2026 | 12:34:21 Thank you. Dear President, Dear colleagues, Sports journalism plays an essential role in our societies, by informing the public, ensuring transparency and contributing to accountability in sports governance. As an organization committed to the defence of human rights, it is our duty to promote the protection of freedom of expression and freedom of information on the ground of sport journalism. In this regard, on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP), I warmly welcome this...