30/09/2025 | 17:13:28 Thank you, Mr President. Thank you to Mr Zsolt NÉMETH for his report and to the President Maulen ASHIMBAYEV, for his speech. Thank you very much. Kazakhstan, perhaps we should remember, is a country that is quite far from us. It is mainly an Asian country, with the Russian Federation on one side and the People's Republic of China on the other. Two states which, I think it's fair to say, are not great democracies. I think we can all agree on that. That makes the work that has been done since... 29/09/2025 | 12:12:15 Thank you, Chair. A lot has already been said, so I'll try to be brief. The last time we met here was for the signing of the agreement creating a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which, along with the Register of Damages, completes a long-standing work that is still going on, and that's positive. Personally, I am proud to have played a part in this and to continue to do so. I would also like to welcome the report by Mr Iulian BULAI on the elections in Poland... 25/06/2025 | 20:36:31 Thank you, Mr Chairman. I'm part of a generation that lived through the days when those who warned us about climate change were regarded as hippies and a bit eccentric. Happily, that's no longer the case. The Reykjavik Declaration mentions the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental right. And, as recently as a month ago, at the 134th meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, a strategy for the environment was adopted in Luxembourg on this occasion. And... 25/06/2025 | 19:43:19 Thank you, President. Exactly ten years ago, in France, on 7 and 9 January 2015, the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and the Hyper Cacher were attacked. A few months later, on 13 November, the Bataclan was attacked. In a way, this was conventional terrorism. The millennium opened with two planes crashing into high-rise buildings, or six years earlier, in the Japanese subway, sarin gas was released. Threats are becoming protean, and this Convention is a welcome step towards adapting our legal tools... 24/06/2025 | 10:44:00 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Today's debate is almost a paradox. Basically, there is the question of migration, which is an issue that runs through most of our countries, and which tends to give rise to populism. Populists who are the first to attack the independence of the judiciary. The independence of the judiciary, which is one of the foundations of the rule of law and of the European Court of Human Rights, is precious to us. In the case of the European Court, this independence is almost... 23/06/2025 | 12:16:11 Thank you, Mr Chairman, For months, almost years, we've been talking here about the setbacks to democracy, and although the report on the elections in Albania mentions that things went well overall, if we listen to the rapporteur right to the end, we hear about pressure, organised crime, vote-buying and a number of things that are detrimental to a functional election. Elections are the foundation of democracy. A free and fair election, with equitable access to the media, for example, was also... 10/04/2025 | 11:26:31 Thank you, Mister President. Since October 2024, Georgian Dream has been leading its people into a descent into hell. Obviously, it's not up to us to choose political parties or groups. That is not our role. And of course, it's up to us to enter into dialogue with those whom the people have freely and sovereignly chosen to be their leaders. But all the regulations, legislation and arbitrary arrests we've been seeing for nearly six months are a sign that this country is heading in a direction... 09/04/2025 | 18:04:58 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine, as this report rightly points out, did not start three years ago, but eleven years ago, under the current regime. And we could go back even further, since a few months ago, in this very chamber, we commemorated the century of the Holodomor. It's a crime the likes of which we haven't seen on our continent for a long time, and no crime can go unpunished. In these times, we must make no mistake about words... 09/04/2025 | 10:30:26 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I, too, would like to congratulate Mr Frank SCHWABE on his tireless work on a subject that concerns us all. Corruption is a special disease. In the end, it affects very few of us directly, yet its consequences weigh heavily on all of us. Trust is the first treasure we must preserve, the trust of our fellow citizens, the trust between us, because, let's not forget, corruption is also one of the preferred weapons of countries waging hybrid wars against us. Alexis DE... 08/04/2025 | 18:37:39 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur on her excellent work, as well as the Chairman of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs for organising a constructive debate in the interests of all of us here. As we can see, an assembly, like those who make it up, is a living organism that cannot remain fixed on rules established more than fifty years ago or sometimes more than seventy years ago. We have to adapt. Indeed, as...