08/04/2025 | 18:57:51 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Collective expulsions flout several fundamental principles of the European Convention, which protect the dignity and human rights of every individual. Yet, despite their prohibition by the European Convention on Human Rights, these practices persist in Europe, with dramatic human consequences. As guarantors of these rights, we have a responsibility to act. All human beings are entitled to dignity. It is the duty of states to protect everyone against the risks of... 08/04/2025 | 12:10:55 Thank you, Madam Chair. Foreign interference is undoubtedly a serious threat to European democracy. To protect it, our response must be based on clear, fair and just principles, and applied universally. This report falls far short of these criteria because it adopts a selective, partisan approach, focusing almost exclusively on Russian interference, while ignoring the well-documented interference of NATO members, North Americans and Europeans. Who can forget the role of the United States in... 28/01/2025 | 19:43:01 Thank you, Madam President. In 1532, Machiavelli was already urging us to be wary of mercenaries: the author of The Prince stated that mercenary troops are "uncertain, unfaithful and dangerous". Today, we say no different. Since the end of the Cold War, the use of private actors has grown steadily; security is increasingly privatised. We all have in mind the example of the Russian group Wagner, but let's not forget North American companies such as Blackwater, operating especially in... 28/01/2025 | 18:29:14 Thank you, Mister President. Over thirty years less life expectancy: according to a study by the scientific journal The Lancet published last Thursday, since October 7, 2023, life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by at least thirty years. Yes, that's a chilling figure for a population of over 2 million. In January 2024, however, the International Court of Justice called for the protection of Palestinians in Gaza from acts prohibited by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the... 02/10/2024 | 10:47:58 Thank you, Madam Chairman. Dear colleagues, Madam and Mister ASSANGE, I'd like to start by thanking the rapporteur for her valuable work, with which I fully agree. The reason we are here today is not just Julian ASSANGE: we are also here for Sabri AL QURASHI, an artist who has painted over 3 000 pictures to date, and whose art radiates around the world. Sabri AL QURASHI was tortured for fifteen years at Guantánamo and released without trial or charge. He lost more than a third of his life. We... 01/10/2024 | 20:06:24 Thank you, Mister President. On September 16, 2022, the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, at the hands of the morality police for wearing a headscarf improperly, triggered an unprecedented wave of protests in Iran. This heinous femicide is the symbol of a powerful revolutionary movement to which the regime has responded and continues to respond with unprecedented brutality and violence, which my group strongly denounces. The slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom" contains... 17/04/2024 | 18:19:57 Thank you, Madam Chairman. Rapporteur, Ladies and Gentlemen, The subject that brings us together today is at the heart of the raison d'être of our Assembly and the commitment of the vast majority of us: quite simply, it's about guaranteeing freedom of expression and assembly for LGBTQI people in Europe and in our member states. Quite simply, it is about upholding two fundamental articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Article 10 on... 15/04/2024 | 15:54:26 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The question of the quality of relations between the parliamentary majority and the opposition, as well as that of good referendum practices, are both decisive for the degree of democratic vitality and respect for the principles of the rule of law that the Council of Europe defends and promotes. The reports we are examining today are, therefore, essential to enlighten our mission as members of this Assembly. My group, the Group of the Unified European Left, thanks... 26/01/2024 | 10:54:12 Thank you, Mister Chairman. This report tackles a subject that is extremely difficult to read and even to conceive, and in that respect it echoes our work in this very Chamber yesterday, in the emergency debate on Ukrainian children in the context of Russia's war of aggression. We would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ, for this comprehensive, precise and much-needed work, which helps to open our eyes even wider to the despicable, the unbearable acts of which our societies... 25/01/2024 | 10:39:40 Thank you, Mr President. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has claimed more than 10 000 civilian victims over the past two years. The terrible violence of this aggression, which has continued unabated for almost two years, has led to Russia's exclusion from our institution, which has trampled on all its principles. In addition to the horrific loss of human life, millions of civilians have fled Ukraine, and tens of thousands have been forcibly displaced within Ukraine's borders, or to...