25/06/2025 | 18:38:01 President, I want to thank Mr Alain FRIDEZ for his work. This report addresses a neuralgic point in any society, namely the dynamic between mobilisation, social protest, institutional power, and law enforcement. While authoritarian regimes suppress critical voices, the heart of a democracy is participation and conflict in peaceful and nonviolent forms. We have a duty not only to protect this freedom but to encourage it. Instead, many democracies today are being distorted by a creeping... 10/04/2025 | 18:31:50 Thank you, President. President, colleagues, First of all, I want to thank Speaker Antonio GUTIÉRREZ LIMONES, for wanting this resolution. And I want to thank the President of the Mexican Senate Mr Gerardo FERNÁNDEZ NOROÑA, for sealing with his presence and with important words this act, which has first of all, from my point of view, a political value. And that is what I want to emphasise here. There is a very close connection between the crisis of democracy and the crisis of multilateralism... 08/04/2025 | 11:05:18 Thank you, President. Colleagues, The first case was Brexit and we still carry the wounds of that, and since then, in every geopolitically important election, there is attempted interference by non-democratic foreign powers against the free vote of democracies. It is part of the offensive of autocratic regimes against democracies. The means are those of disinformation, manipulation, and the prevention of fact-checking to build public opinion. Part, all of this, of a hybrid war waged on the... 30/01/2025 | 18:01:02 Thank you, President, Colleagues, This report holds together, in a way that I think is right, two issues that are not only not antithetical, but instead are indispensable to each other: giving rules to social network platforms to strengthen everyone's freedom of expression and preventing, as is now the case, the freedom of expression of some from being at the expense of, impeding, denying the freedom of expression of others. This is the case with hate speech, which cannot be justified... 03/10/2024 | 16:39:19 President, thank you. Colleagues, There is violence and discrimination that many women suffer, not just because they are women, but doubly so, because they are women and because they are lesbians, simply because they want to live out their nature and their feelings, as equals, without having to hide. It is a vicious and pervasive form of discrimination, which sinks in prejudice and stigma. It prevents people from living their lives freely, from realising their happiness, which is the most... 01/10/2024 | 11:01:37 Thank you, President. Colleagues, We have long had the illusion that the internet, Web 2.0, would strengthen freedom of information, allowing anyone to create and disseminate content. In reality, disintermediation, by taking away the role and reputation of journalism, has struck a fundamental pillar of any democratic system. Free, autonomous and independent journalism is a fundamental garrison, and today it is under attack. Instead, the net is invaded by propagandists disguised as fake... 27/06/2024 | 19:48:13 President, thank you. President, Colleagues, Yes, it is true. This debate is urgent. Because even among the countries of the Council of Europe, even among the countries of the European Union, there is a worrying regression in the area of autonomy of information and freedom of expression. Freedom of expression that can never be absolute, must always respect the principle of non-discrimination, but freedom of expression that is the very heart of any democracy. It is the vital boundary that... 25/06/2024 | 11:09:49 Thank you, President. Colleagues, Democracy is the most important good, yet today this awareness in the public is weak and under attack. It is crucial that it is the new generations that affirm a new democratic consciousness. Our democracies are experiencing a deep, structural crisis. It is a political crisis, and we need a response that is fully political. Democracy is not static; it is not neutral. It lives only if it succeeds in building emancipation, if it keeps the promise of change of... 19/04/2024 | 11:03:11 Thank you President, Let me say that I think it's very important that the stands of this chamber today are packed with so many girls and boys. Online violence against minors is a abject crime, a vicious form of discrimination, a wound not just individual but collective. It strikes at an age when one is defenceless, and it is a plot from which it is difficult to get out. It constitutes a very serious impediment to growth and full personality development. According to UNICEF, 1 in 5 girls and 1... 23/06/2023 | 12:10:38 Thank you, Chair. Thank you Rapporteur Edite ESTRELA for this important work. Colleagues, What we address in this resolution, that is, the issue of fighting the digital divide, is frantic for our societies, because in the time we live in, that of the relentless and violent digital technological revolution, not being able to access the net means not existing from a social point of view. Digital platforms are much more than a means of communication. They are the totalising social form that...