30/09/2025 | 18:26:30 Thank you, Mr President and dear colleagues, By joining this Parliamentary Assembly, Hungary has voluntarily agreed to respect and defending tooth and nail the values and principles that bring us together here. Since 2011, however, Hungary has deliberately strayed from this path: government-controlled media, restrictions on the actions of NGOs, pressure on civil society, frontal attacks on the freedoms of LGBTQI+ people, promotion of a retrograde vision basing education on religious prejudice... 26/06/2025 | 10:59:19 Thank you, Madame President. Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, I'd like to extend my warmest thanks to the rapporteur of this mission, our colleague Mr Paulo PISCO, who reminds us of our first mission here. What do we do? Well, we serve to guarantee respect, respect for human dignity and to protect the sacredness – yes, the sacredness; I don't hesitate to use that word – the sacredness of human rights. For more than a decade now, appalling images have been etched in our memories. These... 24/06/2025 | 16:44:34 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Mr Chairman, dear colleagues, the resolution of our colleague Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS is of the utmost importance. So are those of our other partners. But it documents with rigour and clarity what we now all know, the war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation against the Ukraine is accompanied by countless crimes: the torture of prisoners of war, the deportation of children, the methodical destruction of civilian infrastructure. This is not collateral damage, let... 24/06/2025 | 10:28:11 President, dear colleagues, Are we to ignore the fact that some leaders are seeking to weaken the European Convention on Human Rights? Should we ignore the fact that leaders are attacking the independence and impartiality of the European Court of Human Rights? Should we accept that the body which offers the world's most advanced protection of human rights should be so easily and openly, through the press, called into question and delegitimised? We are facing an undeniable emergency here: the... 10/04/2025 | 16:48:23 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, If I take the floor today, it's not just to evoke a conflict thousands of kilometers away, no: it's to remind you that behind every figure, every report, every word spoken in this House, there are human lives, there are children, there are families, human beings like you and me, whether Israeli or Palestinian. The abominable attacks of 7 October 2023 marked a tragic turning point. Since then, the people of Gaza have been living through an... 09/04/2025 | 18:23:13 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, The aggression against Ukraine, a member of the great European family, is a flagrant violation of international law, a challenge to our democracies and a direct attack on the values that this Council of Europe has been defending against all odds for over seventy years. The Council of Europe, founded to defend democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, has a duty to say now and clearly: there can be no peace without justice. No forgetting... 09/04/2025 | 16:47:39 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İMAMOĞLU, goes beyond the scope of an internal affair and even raises an essential question: how can a member state of the Council of Europe, whose primary mission is to defend human rights and democracy, act in this way? Elected democratically, Ekrem İMAMOĞLU embodies alternation and the hope of unity in today's deeply divided Türkiye. His arrest has no clear basis. It is a political instrumentalisation... 08/04/2025 | 10:21:04 Thank you for your time. It works. Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, The Socialist, Democrat and Green Group wishes to express its deep concern at the resurgence of foreign interference in the internal affairs of our European democracies. This continues to be too often underestimated in its scale and seriousness, and this resolution rightly reminds us that any intentional, covert and manipulative interference orchestrated by foreign powers or their proxies constitutes a serious... 30/01/2025 | 18:28:37 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I'm going to speak in French. I'm going to confess something to you, a very guilty sin: I suddenly had the crazy urge to launch a petition on social networks to better regulate them, or even ban them. Do you think it's possible? Well, yes, it's possible. But who's going to read it? My friends on Instagram, Facebook, X? No, you won't. It's the algorithm that will decide, based on my ideas, which audience will be targeted. And so, since the algorithm will see that I... 18/04/2024 | 18:03:04 Thank you, Mister Chairman, for giving me the floor in such an important debate. I would indeed like to express my deep indignation, as do other colleagues, following the incessant destruction of infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since Saturday 7 October 2024 – the day Israel was attacked by the terrorist organization Hamas. I haven't heard anyone defend Hamas here so far, Mr Andrew PERCY, on the contrary, everyone condemns Hamas, but everyone also condemns - except you, at any rate - Israel's...