29/09/2026 | 16:07:32 Thank you so much, Madam President. First I would like to answer to your call on more solidarity on the export of Ukrainian cereals. Romania does a lot. And the fact that the Global South is assured with Ukrainian cereals is thanks to the Romanian harbours and railways that are open to that solidarity. Now I speak as a European and Romanian citizen worried about war escalation and drones all over Europe, the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania, every day, Germany. What can you yourself, dear... 29/09/2026 | 10:27:32 Madam President, Dear Ambassadors, Secretary General, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, Dear rapporteur, Mr Knut ABRAHAM, Europe is living through a time of profound changes and threats. War has returned to our continent. Democratic institutions are under pressure. Disinformation spreads faster than truth and technology is changing our societies faster than our laws. In such times we need to look for new answers. But these answers must be rooted in solid ground, the values on... 28/09/2026 | 12:12:55 Thank you. Madam President, Dear Secretary General, Dear colleagues, I had the honour to chair our 11-member Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation that observed the early parliamentary elections to the Assembly of Kosovo on 7 June 2026. We were the only international organisation invited to observe these elections. And here you see the exceptional mandate and profile of PACE. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) wasn't there, obviously... 22/06/2026 | 12:31:16 Thank you, President. Thank you, rapporteur. As this is your last time in the Assembly, I want to thank you for your work, your presence, your dedication, dear Laura, for what you did for this Assembly. It was important for us. Thank you. In recent days, Russia has intensified its attacks on Russia, on Ukrainian civilians. Last Tuesday it struck a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in the heart of Kyiv, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. This... 30/01/2026 | 11:03:11 Thank you, Ms. President. I've looked forward so much to this moment because I think you did very well. I want to congratulate you for the leadership over the past days. I think we should be a bit more generous and allow more time before judging people. That being said, on behalf of the Liberals, we wish you good luck, wisdom, inspiration and creativity for the coming two years. You have our full support for the good things you have proposed to do with this Assembly on behalf of all Europeans... 29/01/2026 | 18:41:16 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear rapporteur, dear colleagues, Dear Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, there is no place for criticising your President. Here, we are all behind the Ukrainian people, behind your leadership, to do the best for our country, and we should have solidarity here. So there is no place for criticism for the greatest man in Europe, defending us from the brutal Russians wanting to destroy our identities and values. So, please refrain from that. We are all behind... 29/01/2026 | 10:33:13 Thank you, Madam President. Greenland is Denmark. Greenland is Europe. This is the clear choice of the people of Greenland. I salute the fact that we're holding this debate today. It is a sign of solidarity, but also a sign of recognition that we national parliamentarians take the situation seriously. We take security in the North Sea seriously. We take co-operation with allies seriously. And we take the state of the world order very seriously. I salute the declaration prepared by our Danish... 27/01/2026 | 12:55:14 Dear Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe President, Stimată doamnă președintă [Dear Madam President], Dear guests, I would like to begin by quoting Elie WIESEL, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate. "The opposite of love is not hatred, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of fate is not heresy, it's indifference. The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." These words resonate deeply when we reflect... 26/01/2026 | 17:25:49 President, I'm very happy that so many of you have intervened. My impression is that we see more or less the same challenges around the south and in Europe. So I appreciate very much the intervention of Ms Belén HOYO, speaking of both Venezuela, Iran, so much going on in our neighbourhood too; and also about the need of ethics after the event in Davos. So this is the right place that we should approach our continent with sincerity. I have in fact only one answer, and this is a remark rather... 26/01/2026 | 16:42:20 Dear colleagues, We are already accustomed to Russian foreign policy being based on coercion, confrontation and intimidation. But today we see that our powerful ally, the United States, is turning to the same approach, questioning the principles of sovereignty, borders and the rule of law, destabilising the rules of international cooperation, making unilateral decisions. This creates institutional and communicational fog and unpredictable grey zones. This situation emboldens autocrats...