01/10/2026 | 16:37:04 Chair, Artificial intelligence will not just change the future of work, it will change the geography of opportunity. If we do not understand where those changes are happening, which sectors are affected and whether local people are being equipped to benefit, policy makers will be acting too late. I commend the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the work it's doing to evaluate AI's impact on our labour markets. As we've heard, its modelling in 2025 estimated that... 30/09/2026 | 19:50:59 Thank you very much, Chair. I mean, it's been heartening to see that not a single speaker has argued against the broad proposals in my report, the resolution, or indeed the draft recommendation. And I think that's very important for the Committee of Ministers when, I hope, they consider this recommendation, because I think it shows, and another speaker said this as well, that this Assembly is united in the need to take stronger steps to make Russia pay for these heinous violations that we... 30/09/2026 | 18:51:10 Colleagues, In July last year, the European Court of Human Rights handed down judgments in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia. The Court found a pattern of widespread and systematic human rights violations by Russia that were unprecedented in the entire history of the Court's existence. Now the imperative to ensure that justice is done requires us to consider just a few examples of this conduct given in the Court's judgments. In September 2022, the occupying Russian... 30/09/2026 | 18:32:03 Thank you, Chair. On 9 September, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights unanimously adopted this report, including the draft resolution and the draft recommendation before you today. And I thank Rapporteur Mr Tekke PANMAN for his excellent report on the meticulous work that was behind it. He undertook two fact-finding visits to The Hague to meet with representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the international community and the host state, the Netherlands. The... 24/06/2026 | 15:44:16 Thank you, Madam President. The UK Electoral Commission reported that during the 2024 general election, 25% of voters surveyed reported seeing or hearing a deepfake. Now, I'd be interested to know what proportion of the voters saw the deepfake and actually thought it was real. The questions of what is true, what is false and how do we know go to the root of our democracy. Because, as Mr C.P. SCOTT, the long-serving Editor of the Manchester Guardian, now the Guardian newspaper said, "facts are... 23/06/2026 | 18:22:32 Thank you, Chair. First of all, I want to pay tribute to Mr Jacques PARIS. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, and I want to commend your bravery and strength, and as I will come on to say, it must compel action by this Assembly and by this institution. The Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group welcome the resolution of Mr Max LUCKS and the opinion in our Group's amendments to it proposed by Ms Azadeh ROJHAN. It's imperative that we forcefully condemn the brutal repression of the... 29/01/2026 | 12:54:12 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Colleagues, the immediate crisis has been averted, not by chance, but by the resolute, united diplomacy of European nations. I commend the work of the Danish Government together with the UK Government and our European partners who, through firm dialogue, successfully upheld the rule of law. But while we should celebrate this victory of diplomacy, we cannot rest on it. The question now is not just how we survived this test, but how we... 28/01/2026 | 17:33:05 Thank you. Accountability is when you must explain and justify your actions. If you fall short and you fall short of your duties, then you face consequences. Hamas must be held accountable for 7 October and the Israeli government must be held accountable for what happened next. When the rules-based international order collapses in one region, it threatens the framework of justice everywhere. If we accept impunity in Palestine, we undermine every human rights convention that this institution... 02/10/2025 | 12:51:14 Thank you Mister President, I would first like to thank Lord Michael GERMAN for his comprehensive and urgent report on the devastating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Two years have passed since the appalling terrorist attacks of 7 October 2023. The taking of hostages and killing of innocent civilians was a war crime and an abhorrent act that cannot be justified. But Israel's response has been grossly disproportionate, has collectively punished the Palestinian people and has created an... 01/10/2025 | 17:28:37 I begin by expressing huge thanks to Lord Richard KEEN for his characteristically thorough and authoritative analysis conducted at great speed on this vital opinion. I also wish to thank those members of this Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Europe officials who have worked tirelessly on this issue. Colleagues, there are many reasons to be pessimistic about the future of international law and the international rules-based order, but the promise of an International Claims Commission...