29/09/2026 | 10:37:06 I was in my mid-twenties when I took my first steps in this Assembly 11 years ago. So for a few months, I've been here longer here than I have been married. However, in both, long enough to know that crises and difficulties are a part of life. It is up to us how we solve them. When Mr Winston CHURCHILL called for the creation of the Council of Europe, he called us a family. Are we today here, a family in crisis? We must look in the mirror, not fear the truth, and be able to admit our mistakes... 15/03/2022 | 19:14:09 There are moments in history we call decisive, and this is a decisive moment for the Ukrainians who are fighting for their freedom and the very survival of their nation. It is also a decisive moment for the Russian people who must decide whether to choose our path of peaceful coexistence and democratic future or to follow Vladimir Putin to a barren wasteland of isolation, poverty and enslavement. But it is also a decisive moment for us, Europeans, for too long too many of us have pretended...