10/10/2022 | 12:22:30 Thank you so much, Mr President. Dear colleagues, Since our latest plenary, as we all know, the status quo in Europe has changed only slightly, and not for the better. Today's missile attack in Kyiv and other cities, the Russian annexation of Ukrainian territories and fake referendums, in fact, under constant shelling of the neighbourhoods and with most of the population in refuge, is a blatant attack of aggression and against international law. For that, those responsible should and will be... 21/06/2022 | 16:34:10 Dear Secretary General, Congratulations on planning this summit for the future of Council of Europe. Times of crisis means times of opportunities. We all support this initiative and understand the interest of a high-reflection working group. We regret, though, the absence of representatives from Eastern European countries, the Balkans, the Baltics, the Caucasus, and, very importantly, Muslim countries. We need to have a clear agreement about the way we work for the first part of the... 21/06/2022 | 12:29:09 Thank you, Mr Chair. Dear members of the panel, Dear Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Welcome to PACE, we're very happy to have you here in the hemicycle. Dear Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, your presence here is an explicit sign of support of this Assembly to the democratic efforts of the Belarusian civil society. Two years ago, Belarusian people massively protested against injustice and dictatorship. Today, many are in prison. We are proud to come to you, Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, among the... 28/04/2022 | 18:22:10 Thank you so much, Mr President, Dear colleagues, Allow me to first thank our rapporteurs, Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN and Mr Claude KERN, for authoring this important document. I would like to congratulate our colleagues from Georgia on the progress that the report notices on the electoral reform and the strengthening of parliamentary oversight of the power of parliament as the democratic representative of the people. Many of the observations that the rapporteurs make sound eerily familiar to me and... 15/03/2022 | 12:58:01 Dear colleagues, Dear friends from Ukraine, Dear rapporteur, I think that the conclusions of the report are pretty obvious and straightforward. In the past 30 years, starting with the attack on Moldova and occupation of Transnistria, the Russian Federation has several times broken each and every norm of international law. Almost 3 million Ukrainians have been forced, up to now, to leave their homes and flee abroad, while several other millions are internally displaced, and hundreds of... 28/01/2022 | 10:34:37 Hello, do you hear me now? Thank you, Mister Chair. On behalf of ALDE I thank Mr JENSEN for authoring this report. I also want to thank the Secretariat for each work during this period. I think the report gives us a very good overall picture on the most serious issues concerning the monitored countries. I would like to focus on two of them, the hottest topics of the moment: Turkey and the Russian Federation. I fully noticed the observations on the need for Turkey to ensure the functioning of... 27/09/2021 | 15:43:37 I would like to start by thanking Mr Jacques MAIRE, ALDE group chair. Thank you so much for your report and also thank you Mr Rik DAEMS for keeping the Assembly alive and relevant. In the name of the ALDE group, we affirm that we are very supportive of the idea that the environment should be part of human rights, and we count on Wednesday's debate to give an impulse to our national governments to support this move demanded by citizens all over Europe and start a real conversation on this... 20/11/2020 | 15:59:52 Mr President. Ms Ingjerd SCHOU. We, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the PACE, support the follwing elements of the report. The election of President and vice-Presidents, the election of vice-chairpersons of committees and the number of the current affair debates. However, we, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe have reservations on the proposed proposal concerning the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council... 28/01/2020 | 10:17:15 Dear colleagues, I will start by thanking the rapporteurs, in the name of the whole ALDE group, for their thorough work and keen interest in the welfare of democracy and rule of law. I think all of us, as lawmakers with a deep belief in equality before the law and the separation of powers, are or should be worried when facing a concerted effort to impose a dictatorship of the majority. And this is what is happening now in Poland. In different moments, the civil society, the press, the public... 22/01/2019 | 17:19:22 I must confess that it is difficult to speak after the honourable members from Ukraine, who are directly affected by Russian interventions in their country, but I will still express what I have prepared. I start by thanking Lord Donald ANDERSON for his thorough work as rapporteur. The Sergei Magnitsky case, which carries on, is one of the most astonishing large-scale violations of human rights on our continent, and it cannot go unpunished. I state my profound admiration for Mr Browder's...