16/04/2024 | 17:45:41 Thank you, President. Dear all. My grandparents were born in the Kingdom of Romania. My parents and I were born in a communist republic. My children are born in a democracy. Countries and regimes change. People stay. And looking around in this Assembly, I noticed that actually more than half of the members present here have been born in countries that do not exist anymore. Therefore, our fight is not for countries but for individual rights. This is a historical day from a liberal point of... 15/04/2024 | 16:56:53 Thank you, President, dear Minister, Mr Mihail POPȘOI. Thank you for your presence and congratulations on being appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is a great pleasure for us to have you here and congratulations on the great efforts and reforms and progress that Moldova has achieved in the past year. I was shocked to see the so-called Bashkana of Gagauzia shaking hands with Putin asking for more help in Moldova for that minority, so that is so disgusting and disappointing. How can... 26/01/2024 | 12:14:49 Now this institution, I said it, I will repeat it, it is not a club of perfect countries. It is a gathering of countries accepting to do better. And here we have the tools to do better. And the Monitoring Committee is the tool of the Parliamentary Assembly that is giving the exact indications on how a country can do better in terms of observing the rule of law, protecting human rights and strengthening democracy. I am very sad that the electoral law in Hungary has been changed within six... 25/01/2024 | 16:04:58 Thank you so much, Mister President. Madam Secretary General, on behalf of all of us in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I want to congratulate you for the great budget we've got this year. And credit goes also to the Committee of Ministers. Everyone is happy in terms of the bodies of this institution with the great amount of resources that have been given and that are to be wisely spent. The question for you is: do you know of any progress on the issue of the international... 22/01/2024 | 15:53:29 Dear Mr Tiny KOX, On behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I want to thank you for what you did for this Assembly. You went beyond expectations. Usually when in office, people are trusted less after fulfilling their mandate. Now our trust towards you has doubled. Thank you; you did really well. I want to congratulate the new president Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS. You have a great heritage to continue and I wish you good luck with that on behalf of us. Great congratulations... 22/01/2024 | 15:52:35 Efcharistó (thank you in Greek), Mr. Chairman. On behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I would like to begin by paying tribute to Dick Marty, our former member and Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Monitoring, who passed away on 28 December. Mr Dick Marty was a member of our Assembly and our group for many years. For some, he remained a close friend; others like me did not have the honour of knowing him personally, but for all of us, Mr Dick Marty will... 12/10/2023 | 17:56:17 Thank you, Mister President. Dear all, we are facing a severe humanitarian crisis. We do not have time to lose, we must address this crisis urgently and now. Dear ambassador of Azerbaijan, Mister Fakhraddin ISMAYILOV, on behalf of ALDE, I ask you to deliver the following message to your government. The ALDE group will support actions to deliver these messages to the Azerbaijani government. Any hostilities including rhetoric must be stopped. Any border violation would be unacceptable for a... 12/10/2023 | 17:08:25 Thank you for this generosity, Madam Chair. I would like to first thank Mr Mihail POPSOI for having had the courage to put in a historical perspective all the chronology of aggression from Russia's side to the European democracies in the past 30 years, not to mention the other questions. Now, I would like to respond to the very fine observation of Ms Sabina ĆUDIĆ, saying that the way to hell is paved with good intentions and those could be excuses. Dear Sabina, you are new here, but just to... 12/10/2023 | 15:56:20 Dear colleagues, It has been 20 months that a full-scale war has been going on in the heart of Europe. We were brought to discuss the situation in Ukraine every time we met, every session, in every Standing Committee. We should do so until Ukraine win the war. This report takes into account the conclusions of the Conference of Presidents of Parliament held a few days ago in Dublin. I've also consulted the Ukrainian delegation when writing this report, and I thank them for their contribution... 12/10/2023 | 15:08:26 Dear Commissioner, on behalf of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, I would like to thank you for coming to address this Assembly today. Our question is how can the two institutions work better in order to avoid duplication and use our resources in the most efficient manner in order to help out member states to be fully in line with the rule of low, democracy, and human rights obligations? I was also about to ask you to tell us more about the good work you're doing on Ukraine, both...