13/10/2022 | 18:51:31 Merci Monsieur le President. Dear colleagues. Sport is a wonderful thing. It is a passion for many and it is not only fun and has a positive impact on our health, but it also, in its essence, knows no boundaries or supersedes language barriers and as stressed by our rapporteur, Ms Edite ESTRELA in her report, works as a powerful tool for emancipation and inclusion for all, and for those who have the talent, offers a professional career. However, when we talk about professional sports, a... 13/10/2022 | 16:11:09 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. First of all, thanks to the initiator of this debate Max [Mr Max LUCKS], if I may call you. I'm, being a Swede, I'm being informal. I have high hopes for this Assembly, for you bringing this matter up. I urge you to constantly bring this matter up. Because as the right for democracy, it needs constant debate and constant struggle. This is a fundamental right. The right to love whoever you want. I was brought up like this. This has never been an issue in my... 11/10/2022 | 19:30:41 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, It is our mission in the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination to draw your attention to discrimination, intolerance and racism in Europe in whatever form they manifest. In spite of efforts of national authorities at all levels to eradicate it, racism is still present in Europe and it is unfortunately even on the rise. Islamophobia is no exception. It has been over a decade since the Assembly first adopted a resolution on Islamism in... 28/04/2022 | 12:31:47 Thank you, Mr President. To begin with, let me, from the very bottom of my heart, express mine and my country Sweden's unconditional and wholehearted support and admiration for the brave, brave people of Ukraine in your hard struggle and relentless fight against the brutal, brutal Russian military aggression towards your country. During my five years of this Assembly, a newbie to some of you perhaps, I have experienced somewhat turbulent times, to put it mildly. First all the annexation of... 15/03/2022 | 19:30:06 Mothers of Russia. Brave mothers of Russia. You who have spoken, protested and demanded, to the war in Afghanistan, and the return of your sons. We have all seen and supported, and admired your struggle. The time has come again to say what you must say. Your sons are waging an unjust war. An unjustified war unleashed on you, the Russian people, by your bloodthirsty cruel regime, headed by Putin. An unjustified war that has devastated the neighbouring country of Ukraine. Your brothers and... 15/03/2022 | 19:28:44 Thank you, Madam President. For the last eight years our Ukrainian, Baltic, and Georgian colleagues have warned us in this Assembly about the worsened development of Europe security that we found ourselves in all its horror today. Nearly half of the Swedish delegation have sided with them but the majority of this Assembly have chosen to put its trust in the democratic tools of our civilisations, our humanitarian laws, our democratic institutions, which is understandable. Those are the pillars... 26/01/2022 | 19:03:53 Thank you, Madam President. And dear colleagues of the assembly. Let me begin by wholeheartedly thanking the rapporteur, Mr MAIRE, for thoroughly and in a straightforward manner have him examined the case of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and having determined the facts of the case. I fully support the report of Mr MAIRE but I also support many of the amendments, especially number 1. And I totally side with Mr HOWELL that an unbiased Russian body of examining the case is not to be relied... 25/01/2022 | 19:14:26 Thank you very much. And to comment on Mr Andrey EPISHIN, let me very clear that the proposal in amendment 1 as for number 2 deletes the words "free and independent" from the phrase and not all media are free and independent. Unfortunately, besides numerous media outlets that practice real and honest journalism in accordance with the ethics of journalism which remains free and independent journalism, there is a number of media organizations that are neither free or independent, as they are... 25/01/2022 | 19:00:31 Thank you Mr President. First of all, thank you dear colleagues for the interventions, reflections, and also examples from several of the respective countries with reflections on this report. Some comments – Ms Marie-Christine DALLOZ who is not present – lifted that also readers today are producers of information. This is crucial why the media, and especially that of public media, public service, is independent first of all, and second of all, fact-based. That is the profound round that it... 25/01/2022 | 17:44:12 Thank you, Mister President and let me first of all thank you and congratulate you back on your election. Mr President, Dear Colleagues, I am glad for the opportunity to present the main ideas of the report on the role of the media in times of crisis. I worked on it with great interest and enthusiasm. It is quite understandable as for two years now during the health crisis related to Covid-19, we have seen the vital role the media plays in our day to day life. In these exceptional...