27/06/2024 | 12:39:54 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues. Extremely important report. I want to thank Ms Lise SELNES and the fantastic Secretariat of our Committee for a fantastic job done in very short terms because it was really done in very short terms. But we don't have time to waste, unfortunately, because there are very serious questions right now with Ukrainian displaced people both internally and externally. That's why this is so in time. I just want to remind you that the crisis with... 27/06/2024 | 11:21:31 Thank you, President. Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for the support. That's the only one Amendment on which I and colleagues we insist. Only one. But this is very important, because it's saying about the Georgian path to the European Union. It's saying about recent statements of Bidzina Ivanishvili about justifying the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine. I said about this in my speech. This is very dangerous, and we need to put our attention on this. We can't put... 27/06/2024 | 10:44:25 Thank you. Thank you, chair. First of all, I want to congratulate the Georgian football team and Georgia with this great success. Kartuli pekhburtis su'per [speaks in Georgian]. That's true, Georgian football is super and that's great news. Unfortunately, that's the last great news for Georgia today because what we see there, is not about Russian law, it's not just about democracy, it's about losing its independence. That's very important to understand. We are just seeing with our eyes the... 26/06/2024 | 17:32:58 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Dear friends, now it's a very symbolical moment, so many viewers, so many of us here, why? Because the Olympic Flame is on the way here, and we will speak now here and we will watch the Olympic Flame. But what are the Olympic Games? It's a symbol of peace, and we are now speaking about reconciliation processes and peace in the future, that is very important. But I want to remind all of you that when we will watch with you the Olympic Flame, the war continues... 26/06/2024 | 10:47:17 Thank you, dear Chair. Let us have a serious talk. Yes, the Russian Empire is a colossus on clay feet, but besides these clay feet, and the reason why they still exist, is that they have three pillars: gas, oil, steel. This is the reality. And after more than two years of a full-scale invasion, after more than 10 years of war in Ukraine, what do we see from the point of view of sanctions? In May, so last month, Russia became again the number one gas supplier to the European Union. More than... 25/06/2024 | 19:28:12 Thank you. Thank you, Madam chair. Dear colleagues. The Report presented before you by Ms Stephanie KRISPER was endorsed by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons. It provides an important reminder of the common rules applying across all member states on asylum policies. In essence, what this Report says is that procedural rights are neither a luxury nor a favour. The right to access the territory of asylum, to excess a fair and the individualised procedure is a... 25/06/2024 | 12:31:59 Thank you. Thank you very much, Mister Minister. Thank you very much for your presentation, but my question for you is definitely about the Russian aggression against not just Ukraine, but the whole of Europe. The question is about the Russian hybrid style of aggression. We see how Russia is not just having a military aggression against Ukraine, but is also making sabotage attacks, terrorist attacks, and also using legal mechanisms. For example, last week I was sentenced by the Russian court... 25/06/2024 | 11:20:15 Dear, dear chair, thank you very much. And would like to thank the rapporteur for an excellent job done. And we are speaking now about youth perspective and youth participation. And by this, what do we usually mean? That young people should take part in politics, that we want young people to vote. Here, there are young people watching what we are doing. I say hello to you. But I want to say hello, yes, and we are happy to see you and that it is very good that you are with us. But I want to... 24/06/2024 | 16:23:27 Oh yes, thank you very much. And yes, as you already heard from our President. Thanks to President Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS and Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, you already know that if before you did not have a convicted and sentenced criminal among your friends and colleagues, now you have. That's me – ten years of prison from a Russian military court. Last week, this was their decision and this is their message to all of us. Yes, definitely, it is a badge of honour. Not just for me in person but for all... 17/04/2024 | 16:37:33 Thank you, President, dear colleagues, We need to give an honest answer to the question. Who is the Russian opposition? The answer is Vladimir Kara-Murza. Yes, he is the Russian opposition because he fought, and he continues to fight even in prison. A Russian volunteer corps, which is now fighting together with Ukrainian armed forces against Putin and his army, they are the real opposition. So, the place of Russian opposition now is not in the restaurants of Monaco, drinking wine there, but...