25/06/2025 | 20:54:56 Thank you, President. Aside from the challenges of democracy and the rule of law, the challenges of combating global warming and the ecological transition are undoubtedly the most important ones, and they will be more and more about how we conceive of these things related to the environment, human health, but also the economy as a right from now on. And you have to change the narrative a little bit, though, because so many speeches have also been rightly critical, but this report, and we have... 25/06/2025 | 19:15:23 Thank you President, I will speak in Italian. [in English]. Democracy is not supported only by the right to vote; it is only a tool through which the citizen decides by whom to be represented. There are other rights necessary to the very life of democracy: the right to information is one of them. It is essential to have the opportunity to make decisions in the light of free, truthful information, capable of triggering dialogue and not conflict, discussion and not partisan positions. Already... 10/04/2025 | 17:31:30 Thank you, President. The 2022 proposal by President Emmanuel MACRON, as the rotating president of the Council of the European Union, to establish a European political community represented and continues to represent an ambitious attempt to create a forum for co-operation among European states and not only those that are members of the EU, such as San Marino who is also present, to tell the truth, but also the United Kingdom, the Western Balkans and other European nations. This attempt to... 09/04/2025 | 12:41:07 Thank you, Minister. A strong headwind is blowing from the United States of America with the directives of Donald TRUMP's presidency, which are also the benchmark of many European political forces but which are based on everything the Council of Europe does not stand for: force winning over dialogue, discrimination winning over inclusion, allergy to multilateralism. The hope is that this sort of nightmare will end quickly, thanks to the American citizens themselves who are opposed to this... 08/04/2025 | 12:55:02 Thank you, President. Thank you, Prime Minister, for your speech. A dear greeting from the second to the fifth smallest country in the Council of Europe. If there was a competition, however, Monaco would win for sure, so there is no competition on that. I would ask you for your assessment of the relationship between small states and multilateral organisations, which are never more challenged than now. If there is a class of states in need of diplomacy, rights and respect for international... 07/04/2025 | 17:21:24 Thank you, President. Thank you, Petra. For the reports and the good work done in Kosovo, thank you, Andrej, for these 15 years of work. I was part of the delegation to observe the elections in Kosovo and the experience suggested to me some reflections, more than on the functioning of the democratic institutions of the vote itself, on the effort applied in recent years by Kosovo, as by other countries that are not yet members of the Council of Europe or that are trying to join the European... 31/01/2025 | 10:19:35 Thank you Chairman, I would first like to thank the rapporteur for the thorough and balanced report on this issue, which has not only led us to reflect on the experience and long-term consequences of the deadliest pandemic in at least a century, but also causes us to take a stand on the value of public funding in the health care system and prevention, which should not be considered a cost, rather an effective investment to ensure a prerequisite of all human activity: health. Unfortunately, it... 29/01/2025 | 16:29:24 Thank you, Prime Minister, for your speech and responses, and good work on the six-month presidency by the San Marino Delegation. President Trump announced the end of the Great New Deal in light of the slogan "Drill, baby, drill!" Without the United States, and given also the position of India and China, the European Union's efforts associated with the Paris Agreement to reduce the size of greenhouse gases by 55% compared to 1990 will be totally insufficient to combat climate change, it being... 30/09/2024 | 16:11:48 Thank you, Mister BULAI. So, the debate is closed. The Bureau has proposed references to committees for certification by the Assembly. They are set out in Document 16045, addendum 1. Is there any objection to the proposed references to committees? No, there is no objection. So the references are approved. I now propose that the other decisions in the progress report Document 16045, addendums 1 and 2 be ratified. Are there any objections? No, there aren't. There are no objections. The... 30/09/2024 | 15:37:13 Good afternoon. Please take your seats. We are going to start in a few moments. Let us start. The sitting is open. I remind members that they should insert their badge before taking the floor. As you begin your speech, please press the microphone “request” button once only. The next item on the agenda is the debate on the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee (Document 16045 and Addendums 1 and 2). The debate must conclude by 4:10 p.m. I will therefore have to interrupt...