01/10/2024 | 11:11:37 Dear colleagues, first of all let me congratulate Mr Stefan SCHENNACH on this timely report. Indeed, today we are witnessing that propaganda is becoming a very dangerous and very harmful challenge to our societies on a global scale. Mister SCHENNACH correctly identifies harmful propaganda and manipulation of public opinion as one of the threats that undermines our values. I agree with the resolution and believe that we should develop holistic strategies to counter illegal propaganda and help... 30/09/2024 | 17:21:52 Let me thank you very much to the speakers for their kind words and assessment of the report. And I would like to highlight once more that the main value, what the bank is developing in these countries, is the coexistence in commercial projects, the values that we share and the values that we believe in, that is social cohesion, environmental protection. And these issues are together going with the commercial benefits and commercial gains of the Bank. And this is very much important for all... 30/09/2024 | 16:17:03 Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I'm glad that I have the opportunity to present my report on the Council of Europe Development Bank and highlight the main findings. I will do a brief overview of the history and goal of the Bank and later development into overviewing the Bank's activities over the past five years, such as activities in helping member states handle the Covid-19 pandemic, its support to Ukraine's reconstruction, its nexus to environmental and social development and its... 26/01/2024 | 12:39:17 Thank you. First of all, let me thank Mr Piero FASSINO, for his excellent work on his report. I highly appreciate that this report once more underlines and reiterates its full support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. This is very important for the people of Georgia. During our session in Strasbourg, we speak and spoke much about Russia's aggression towards Ukraine. But such kind of aggression was in Georgia in 2008. Now our... 25/01/2024 | 18:23:08 Thank you. Let me take a speech and say some words about the report "Countering SLAPPs: an imperative for democratic society". First of all, let me congratulate the rapporteur Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, for a report which addresses important issues that democracies face today in our common realities. Strategic lawsuits against public participation. Of course it is very important and very crucial to identify such cases and support media freedom and freedom of expression from public society... 24/01/2024 | 15:10:36 Dear Prime Minister, You have mentioned in your speech that peace and security are one of the issues where the Council of Europe plays its prominent role and is important in promoting these issues. At the same time, the Liechtenstein presidency announced to us issues as priority issues, and these issues were priority for other countries in previous years: for Georgia, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Hungary, and so on. My question is regarding what kind of actions or additional mechanisms should the... 19/06/2023 | 16:25:05 Never mind. Thank you. We highly welcome the Reykjavík Summit Declaration, especially considering Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, ongoing occupation of Georgian territories, and other conflicts. In this regard, the Summit succeeded, having most of the heads in place during the Summit. Now the organisation experiences a shortage of financing and wide fundraising processes underway. In this regard we are interested in which kind of activities and which fields will be financed in the...