26/06/2024 | 16:59:25 Thank you, Chair. Thank you, friends and colleagues. Thank you, rapporteurs. I think all these three reports bring us closer to justice. That's what the members of the Assembly of course should do. Bring justice closer. I listened carefully to your speeches when you spoke about culture, about your culture and national cultures, identities, languages. I really understand that if Ukraine would not stop Russia they will come to your countries and to erase your identity as they do, as they... 26/06/2024 | 10:28:00 Thank you, Chair. Dear President, dear colleagues, Thank you rapporteurs and thank you for organising this joint debate. It is very important for Ukraine. I would probably be able to talk for hours, not 7 minutes about the contents of my report but I decided to take with me a little bit to explain how Russia is destroying our identity. This is a book from Kharkiv from the publishing house VIVAT and the publishing house Faktor-Druk. They were attacked in May this year and I quote a witness... 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...