23/04/2026 | 16:12:28 Thank you, Madam President. And thank you, dear colleagues, for this exchange of views. Organised crime, money laundering and financing of terrorism all pose a threat to our societies, to democracy and to the rule of law. And it's absolutely clear that countering it must be done under the rule of law as well. Crime shouldn't pay, some of my colleagues said, and I think that we all can agree on that within the sound legal framework. This protocol is an important step forward. And I want to... 23/04/2026 | 15:34:14 Thank you, Madam President, Dear colleagues, The rapporteur, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU, could not be with us today to present his opinion on the additional protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism, known as the Warsaw Convention. I have the pleasure to speak on his behalf and allow me to express my gratitude for his work on this report. The draft additional protocol is a response... 23/04/2026 | 10:28:53 Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, dear colleagues. Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we are still not in doubt about what we are witnessing. This is not only a brutal war, but it is a deliberate violation of the very foundation of international law, which is the prohibition of aggression. Colleagues, we already see accountability efforts underway for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And these are crucial. But there remains a gap, a gap when it comes to... 22/04/2026 | 19:50:23 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to start by thanking the Committee's rapporteur, Ms Lesia VASYLENKO, for her excellent work on this report. The draft resolution is the result of extensive discussions, both within the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, and between the rapporteur and some members also, as we heard, of the Swiss delegation. The Committee considered the preliminary draft resolution twice in 2025, giving as much room as possible for finding... 28/01/2026 | 16:06:15 Thank you, my dear colleague. Madam President, Minister Mihail POPSOI, Dear colleagues, Welcome back to the Parliamentary Assembly. My belief is that what is going on in the Republic of Moldova is really astonishing. Your resilience, your European determination, your resistance to Russian attempts to interfere in your country. Sweden stands with you all the way; and you have shown, really, what leadership is about. I can tell you also that you have the full support of the Group of the... 02/10/2025 | 16:27:20 Mister President, Dear colleagues, The situation in Georgia is deeply alarming. The political oppression which we observe is not the European way. It is merely a Georgian nightmare, with clear inspiration from the horror playbook of the Kremlin, but still with ongoing arbitrary detentions and jailing of all the political opposition leaders except one, and the brutality and authoritarianism that we see shown by the fraudulent leader Mr Bidzina IVANISHVILI. The people of Georgia, a vast... 09/04/2025 | 17:52:24 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear colleagues, For over a decade, Ukraine has stood as a lighthouse in the storm at the frontier of European values in a war at the heart of Europe. The Russian war in Ukraine is not only an assault on national sovereignty, on human dignity, or international rule of law. From the illegal annexation of Crimea to the brutal targeting of civilians, the shelling and deportation of children, and the attempted erasure of a nation's cultural identity, the... 29/01/2025 | 17:33:36 Mister President, thank you very much. The current developments in Georgia orchestrated by Georgian Dream, cannot be described as anything else as a slow Belarusification of the country. The decline of democracy and the decline of rule of law in the country has been going on for months. We all know this. It escalated last year, in May, as the government and Georgian Dream decided to pursue the infamous Russian law, whose main course is to destroy and crush the civil society and free press of... 03/10/2024 | 12:53:40 Thank you, Mister President, Mister Foreign Minister, And welcome also to the hemicycle of the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe. And thank you for your speech and for your answers. North Macedonia is a valuable ally to my country and, as you mentioned, 30 years since you joined the Council of Europe, we joined NATO in becoming full fledged allies this very March this year. So now we are fully, fully together. Your path to further European integration is of importance to both you... 15/04/2024 | 17:11:45 Dear President and dear Foreign Minister Mr Mihail POPSOI, dear colleagues, As the Minister pointed out, the Republic of Moldova has been a member of the Council of Europe for almost 30 years. A valuable partner and ally for democracy and rule of law and now also on the path to becoming a member of the European Union. Sweden and the Parliament of Sweden truly welcome this. The progress shown by the Republic of Moldova in regard to the Council of Europe action plan is rather astonishing when...