25/06/2024 | 10:20:21 Dear colleagues, dear President, our rapporteurs. I think it is a really historical day for our Assembly, having finally these Reports. They were postponed from the last session and now they have a very prominent day – Tuesday – especially when we have the biggest number of members of this Assembly here for the vote for the Secretary General. So thank you for putting this in such a prominent position in the agenda. Of course, I would like to welcome the young people – young students – welcome... 24/06/2024 | 16:30:01 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank madam Secretary General Ms Marija PEJČINOVIĆ-BURIĆ for her work. We have a lot of things to remember, of course. As it was already mentioned, the exclusion, expulsion, of the Russian Federation in 2022 actually gave sort of a second breath to the Council of Europe. We had this leader summit, we had the register of damage created. We might have a special tribunal created. It will be quite historical. Right now... 18/04/2024 | 16:48:55 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, Although I will be using notes, I promise it's not AI that wrote my speech. We're currently living through truly challenging times, with a war raging in the heart of our Europe. At the same time we're also on the threshold of a new era where artificial intelligent holds the possibility of transforming our world in ways we could hardly have imagined just a few decades ago. In fact, this also brings with it a great responsibility. We as parliamentarians... 18/04/2024 | 11:27:31 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear Mr Simon MOUTQUIN, dear Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA, thank you for your tremendous work on these reports. Indeed, the urgency of environmental degradation has never been clearer. The right to live in a healthy and safe environment is the fundamental human right. I think it's very symbolical that today we discussed these two resolutions in this chamber with all these young people in the balconies. Be sure they will be fighting for this right. I'm sure that they are... 17/04/2024 | 20:30:46 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, There is no doubt – assassination of Alexei Navalny is at the hands of putin and his dictatorship. It is another stark reminder that putin does not care who will live and who will die. He is capable of everything to pursue his revanchist aspirations. Ukraine knows this clearly. We know this because Russia is on our land, killing and torturing thousands of Ukrainians, just as it tortures thousands of political prisoners who... 16/04/2024 | 15:45:44 Thank you, Mister President. Thank you, friends. Thank you to our rapporteurs. And I'm so honoured to welcome from ALDE group the speaker of Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan STEFANCHUK with such a powerful speech. And to hear these Ukrainian words from this high tribune is priceless, and thank you for listening to this, and I hope you heard everything and will take it back home. But coming to the resolution. We vote a lot of resolutions in this Assembly. And you have to understand that it does... 25/01/2024 | 18:26:19 First, dear colleagues, and dear rapporteurs, I would like to thank you for your work and also for these rich discussions that we had in the Committee and the exchanges of views all last year. Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, I would like to thank you first for the topical issue that you have raised. SLAPPs are one of the biggest threats to media pluralism and freedom of speech. They are often used by powerful individuals or organisations to intimidate and silence critics, including journalists and... 25/01/2024 | 10:36:15 Thank you, Chair, thank you, colleagues, I am honoured to speak on behalf of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the ALDE group will support the resolution. And yesterday, I was preparing and I was thinking what new words can I find to address this very tough topic and I think the worst thing that could happen – and is already happening I think – is that all these atrocities are becoming a normality and normal news. Two days ago, another 8 year-old-girl in Kharkiv... 24/01/2024 | 20:02:29 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, distinguished rapporteurs Mr KATROUGALOS and Ms TANGUY, Distinguished Mr Secretary-General CORMANN, Thank you for keeping the issue of Russian aggression on the top of our agenda. Everyone is well aware that Russian aggression affects not only Ukraine. It has global implications for the entire international community. In Ukraine, we talk a lot about the fact that only united we can defeat a common enemy. The challenges we... 23/01/2024 | 20:38:36 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Thank you, dear colleagues. Thank you, Mr. FRIDEZ and Mr. GANJALIYEV, for your reports and work, which is extremely relevant on the eve of this year's elections in the European Parliament and many European countries. I fully share the opinion that in a true democratic society there can be criticism and public dialog on all relevant topics of public life. The issue of migrant and asylum seeker policy is no exception. At the same time, we...