01/10/2025 | 17:31:02 Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, I would also like to congratulate Lord Richard KEEN on the report. Today, we are taking another decisive step towards justice. The establishment of an International Claims Commission for Ukraine builds on the Reykjavík Declaration and on the work already carried out throughout the Register of Damage, which has collected more than 60 000 claims so far. Bulgaria joined the Register early and has been an active participant in the negotiations leading to this... 25/06/2025 | 18:59:58 Colleagues, I sincerely commend the initiative of this report and appreciate the work of our rapporteur, Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ. Currently in Europe we are witnessing many social protests and rallies, including in my country Bulgaria, which also have violent outcomes. Recently, during an anti-euro protest, some police officers were harmed during the rally and the building of the European Commission and the European Parliament in Sofia was damaged. In many cases, the police officers were... 09/04/2025 | 19:35:28 Madam President, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the parliamentary scrutiny of the Assembly of the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has to be admired. This gives parliamentarians the opportunity to be aware of the main problems of the functioning of the legal system in their particular country and on a European scale as well. I shall focus my intervention on the Bulgarian case. Since the decision of the national assembly of Bulgaria from 2012, each year... 29/01/2025 | 10:57:24 Miss President, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I cannot but commend the work done by the rapporteur Ms Luz MARTINEZ SEIJO which is bringing back to our attention the issue of democratic citizenship and education. Let me first remind that the Declaration and a Program on Education for Democratic citizenship, based on the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens was adopted by the Committee of Ministers in 1999 in Budapest on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Council of Europe. It was... 27/01/2025 | 17:35:20 Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2 Mister President, Distinguished colleagues, Ms Zanda Kalnina has presented before us today an excellent report. I would like to express my admiration for her profound work which has contributed a lot to the strengthening of the Democracy of the European Continent. First of all, I am grateful indeed for the high appreciation of the efficient organisation of the last parliamentary elections in Bulgaria. The recommendation to overcome the absence... 26/01/2024 | 12:25:41 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, I would like to say that we highly appreciate the report presented today by Mr Piero FASSINO, and to recognise with gratitude his personal efforts as Chair of the Monitoring Committee. The monitoring procedure of the Assembly has been a booster to our democratic development. We appreciate the role of the Council of Europe in consolidating democracy, rule of law, and human rights. Being Bulgarian, I... 23/06/2023 | 11:36:09 Madam President, Distinguished members of the Assembly, I would like, first of all, to congratulate our rapporteur Ms Edite ESTRELA for this very timely report, not just her, but also the entire Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination as the initiator of this report. It is fairly pointed out at the beginning of the draft Resolution that this issue was raised back in 2001 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which is under the scrutiny of this Assembly. I dare...