26/06/2025 | 11:06:03 Thank you so much. First of all, I want to thank all the interventions that have been made in this Plenary, including all those that do not present any answers to this dramatic situation. And they don't have an approach, which could be called a human approach to the situation. I think that if we could stop wars and repression and climate change, and poverty, migrations would diminish. They will never stop. Because, since the beginning of humanity, migration has been part of our identity, of... 26/06/2025 | 10:06:40 Thank you Chairman, Dear Colleagues, One of the biggest tragedies happened in the central Mediterranean 10 years ago, one of the deadliest routes in the world. Around 1 000 migrants died or disappeared in the sea in a journey from Libya to Lampedusa. Two years ago, the Adriana vessel sank off the Greek coast of Pylos, causing the death of more than 600 people. Just some days ago, IOM reported two more shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean, with at least 60 people dead or missing off the... 08/04/2025 | 19:44:20 Dear colleagues, This report gives a very important contribution to eliminate a grey zone that makes possible the violation of international law and human rights without accountability or consequences. Collective expulsions must stop because they are illegal and because they are also inhumane. Because they ignore the situation of each person, who they are and their reasons to migrate, running away from wars, misery, and persecutions. Many died before arriving at borders, in land or at sea... 01/10/2024 | 16:08:30 Thank you Chair, dear colleagues, These two reports, on missing migrants and on migrant smuggling, deal with very complex and sensitive domains, where the violation of human rights are permanent, with much violence and loss of lives. Smuggling migrants is an attractive criminal activity because it has a huge economical return and is not easy to fight, because it often happens beyond our borders and has the complicity of corrupt state authorities and security forces. But instead of closing our... 12/10/2023 | 16:12:04 Dear collegues, The war against Ukraine can not last for eternity. At some point, it must finish, and we should effectively start paving the way for peace and stability in our continent. That vital task requires the same energy and creativity that we have put in to create the United Nations, European Union and the Council of Europe, to ensure lasting peace, security, democracy, and prosperity. This report reminds us that, in spite of the dangerous turbulence in several parts of the world, the... 10/10/2023 | 16:34:48 Thank you, Chair, Dear colleagues, The influence of extreme-right parties and movements has grown together with the influence and sophistication of internet and social networks. It is through those channels that citizens are flooded with disinformation, fake news, manipulation, and radicalisation. That’s why this report is so important and must be followed. It highlights the dangers of the extreme-right movements to our democracies, to the stability of our nations, to the strength and... 27/04/2023 | 17:09:36 Thank you, Chairman. First of all, I would like to thank you very much for all the participation, especially the first lady Olena Zelenska, who came to participate in our debate with a very touching testimony, and to all the colleagues that brought here also their testimonies in this very important subject. All those that participated, I think, are very, very important to give a solid basis to the position of the Council of Europe. I am very pleased that now we can speak loud and clear about... 27/04/2023 | 15:34:06 Thank you, Chairman, Ms Olena ZELENSKA, let me express, first of all, my gratitude for your participation in the discussion of this crucial report. Dear Colleagues, In one of her many incriminatory declarations, the Russian commissioner for children's rights, Ms Maria Lvova-Belova said, and I quote: “Now that the children have become Russian citizens, temporary guardianship can become permanent”. Ms Maria Lvova-Belova was just following the plans and objectives announced by Mr Vladimir Putin... 26/01/2023 | 11:13:21 ... to Ms Oleksandra MATVIICHUK for her important speech and for the courageous work she, and her organisation, are doing. Colleagues, all the atrocities committed by Russian armies in Ukraine show with no doubt that human rights are being violated in all dimensions and that we are in face of all kinds of war crimes, from aggression to genocide: absolute lack of humanity, indiscriminate killings, destruction of entire cities, use of forbidden weapons, destruction, violence, torture, forcibly... 13/10/2022 | 11:42:20 Thank you Mr Chairman. Congratulations to the rapporteur for this much updated report. Dear colleagues, We should address directly from this Assembly to Mr Putin, ask him to stop immediately the war in Ukraine and leave all the territories illegally occupied, including Crimea. All the referendums done since 2014 are an obscene violation of international law. All along these eight months of war Mr Putin didn’t achieve any of its objectives and he will not achieve any, unless he prefers mutual...