30/09/2021 | 15:47:09 Thank you, Mr Chair, Dear colleagues, First of all, allow me to thank our rapporteur for her excellent work. I'm sure that she has done her utmost to present us with a thorough and comprehensive report. The reports we have been receiving from the borders of Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland with Belarus of a huge increase of influx of irregular migrants are worrying on a number of issues. Just to illustrate the point: the number of irregular arrivals to Lithuania alone increased by 110 times... 30/09/2021 | 11:26:55 Thank you, Mister Chair, Happy birthday, Mr Nikola DIMITROV. After the Dayton Accords, the Prespa Agreement is probably the most important treaty solving one of the crucial issues in the Balkans region. In your view, how would you stimulate similar solutions to other pressing issues in the region? We see, for example, tensions in Kosovo if the EU does not follow through on its promises. I have a second question. The 2019 European Court of Human Rights judgment obliges North Macedonia to adopt... 24/06/2021 | 09:25:27 Thank you, Mister President, and congratulations: you have pronounced my name perfectly. Dear colleagues, I come from a country that values its diaspora. Indeed, more Croats live outside of Croatia than in Croatia proper. Therefore, we are, and I am, well aware of the importance of a clear and systematic approach to diaspora. And I'm proud to say that Croatia already implements vast majority of the recommendations stated here, in this report, if not all. Dear colleagues, this is the first... 22/06/2021 | 12:15:56 Thank you, thank you, Mister Chair. Allow me first to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Damien COTTIER, as well as the rapporteur for the opinion on tackling this very sensitive but important and current issue. Dear colleagues, we have all been affected and have suffered in a way because of this pandemic. I refer both to the countries and to the individuals. We have suffered economic, social, psychological and health consequences. To alleviate some of those consequences, different countries... 03/10/2019 | 10:55:30 Thank you, Madame Chair, First of all, allow me to start with thanks to all the countries, to all the NGOs, and to all of you personally who have contributed in saving lives and bringing attention to this very important topic. Danke, thank you, merci, grazie, spasiba, gracias, teşekkür, ευχαριστώ. Thousands of people have died just here, just this year, as we have heard. And what President MACRON said, what we heard, is that when these people are on the boats, we have already failed. Our... 03/10/2019 | 10:02:11 Thank you, Madame Chair, Merci, la Madame Président, Chéres colleagues, Even now, as we speak, many people are daring the waters of the Mediterranean to reach European shore. Regardless of their motivation for such a dangerous undertaking, whether they are running away from war, poverty, climate changes or something else, the fact remains that some of them will never reach the shore, as the salty waters of the Mediterranean will become their grave. According to the records of IOM, UNHCR and... 10/04/2019 | 11:32:41 It is very unfortunate that we have to debate in this august Chamber phenomena that we considered obsolete like anti-Semitism, xenophobia, homophobia, and other phobias that generate hate and consequently hate speech. Sport is seen as a way to test a contestant’s mettle and skill and to provide the stimulus of cheering and the thrill of appreciation of skill and fair play to the contestants’ supporters. Unfortunately, that is often not the case, however; sporting events have become an excuse...