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... 28/01/2025 | 11:47:29 Thank you, Madam President. I would also like to congratulate Ms BAKOYANNIS on her excellent report, but I must begin by expressing a regret. The very fact that this report exists is basically an admission of failure. Admittedly, not a complete failure; admittedly, not a total failure: but a failure nonetheless. What makes it all the more worrying is that the European continent has already experienced the failure of multilateralism. I'd like to quote a great French politician, Aristide Briand... 27/01/2025 | 17:23:17 Thank you, Mister Chairman. First of all, thank you to the three rapporteurs. I'm going to speak more on the subject of Georgia, but we do have three rapporteurs who have presented their work and, as we often say, "criticism is easy but art is difficult". So thank you. Now, concerning Georgia, since I was also one of the observers, I heard some of our colleagues talking about the situation in Belarus - or Belarus, I don't know what the official name is here - but it's very different because... 03/10/2024 | 16:34:19 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I would also like to thank Ms Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO for her report and her unfailing commitment to tolerance and dignity, which can be seen here as well as in our national Parliament. The question before us all boils down to this: tolerance and dignity. In a report published last May, the European Agency for Fundamental Rights, the report it produces every five years on LGBTQI equality, basically demonstrates a paradox: European societies are both more tolerant and... 02/10/2024 | 10:25:45 Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur for the excellent report which has been presented today, which raises the fundamental question of the right to information and the right balance to be struck between necessary state secrecy, essential for protection in a dangerous world, and the right of journalists to do their job and keep the public informed. What is all the more surprising, in this case, is that this work has been celebrated. It's the Pentagon... 01/10/2024 | 11:37:43 Thank you, Mister Chairman. As many of our colleagues have said, propaganda is information used as a weapon: a weapon of war, a weapon of oppression, because when propaganda is state-sponsored, it is applied first and foremost to the people for whom the state is responsible, and a weapon against democracy. As our colleague's excellent report makes clear, information is democracy's primary resource. Informed citizens who make enlightened choices are necessary for functioning democracies. So, I...