25/06/2026 | 10:33:18 I am going to speak in Spanish. The Spanish government, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, is doing the right thing, respecting the values which the Council of Europe represents. The rule of law, human rights and migrants' dignity. Dear colleagues, Although the Chișinău Declaration is a political declaration and not a binding instrument, I am concerned by the message that it sends. In particular return and return centres present migration as a problem of control and security, and not an issue of human rights... 29/01/2026 | 19:01:46 Thank you, Ms Saskia KLUIT. The debate is now closed. The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has tabled a draft resolution and a draft recommendation on the '65th anniversary of the European Social Charter: social rights as the foundation of resilient democracies and social justice'. There are no amendments so we can proceed directly to the votes. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is... 29/01/2026 | 18:31:02 Good afternoon, my friends. We move on to the item on the agenda. The next item of business this afternoon is a debate under urgent procedure on "The 65th anniversary of the European Social Charter: social rights as the foundation of resilient democracies and social justice" presented by Mr Paul GALLES on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. In order to finish by 7:00 p.m., I will interrupt the list of speakers at about 6:50 p.m. to allow time for... 28/01/2026 | 16:53:39 Dear colleagues, We ought to be saying Palestine rather than Gaza. Because to say Gaza is to fragment and to depoliticise, whereas saying Palestine recognises a people with rights. Gaza is a territory, Palestine is a political subject. Palestine is no longer in the media as much these days as it was a few months ago, but the plight of Palestinians continues to be intolerable and unbearable. We have a situation in which peace cannot be a parenthesis in a land that is plagued by war. Peace... 10/04/2025 | 19:05:43 Thank you Madam President, thank you dear Bernadeta. I'd like to thank all the colleagues who spoke, and I'd like to thank them too for their contributions. We all agree on the need to step-up our efforts when it comes to defending our values and promoting co-operation with other organisations, and supra-national entities. And this is what we are doing. Dear colleagues, in the latest report on global democracy published by The Economist, only 6.6% of the global population live in democracy... 10/04/2025 | 17:58:50 Dear President, thank you. I am going to speak in Spanish. First and foremost, allow me to extend thanks to the online presence of the President of the Mexican Senate, Gerardo FERNÁNDEZ NOROÑA. I also wish to underscore the very key role played by Mexico here for more than 25 years through relations between the Council of Europe and this Assembly. Europe and Latin America share five centuries of history. It's a history of languages, cultures, traditions and common ideas. Furthermore, it is a... 01/10/2024 | 12:49:04 Dear Secretary General, Congratulations on behalf of the Spanish delegation. I am sure that this Assembly will be proud of the work you will do to perform your task. As was stated in the earlier debate, populism is on the march in our democracies using communication outlets to produce propaganda, to undermine our institutions, but as you said, we need to react, not only internationally, but also nationally. The Spanish Government has put forward a bill with a number of measures to strengthen... 17/04/2024 | 16:30:37 I'm going to speak Spanish. Many thanks for the outstanding work done by Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR and Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, rapporteurs of the three reports before us, as well as Ms Evgenia KARA-MURZA for her testimony and her courage. Dear colleagues, today, from the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, we would like to call out and condemn the prosecution, detention and murder of Alexei Navalny, as well as the persecution and illegal detention of Vladimir... 27/04/2022 | 16:13:37 Thank you very much, President. Dear colleagues, Today it is 85 years since the Gernika shelling, painted by Picasso. President Zelensky had a discussion with the Parliament of Spain, and he talked about Gernika. He said that it was comparable to what was happening in Ukrainian cities. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Frank SCHWABE on his report, which calls on this house to take decisive action. I would also like to thank our President, Mr Tiny KOX. Thank you for... 15/03/2022 | 15:10:46 Dear Colleagues, Please let me first of all share with your thoughts about the times that we are living through and our commitment to them. When we began the 21st century, we thought that all the great wars that all of our peoples had suffered in the previous century were things that belong to the past, and that our generation would not see any new wars. Conflicts went on existing in the world, but they all seemed far from our borders: in Africa, Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia. They were far...