01/10/2025 | 11:25:46 Dear Mister President, dear colleagues, I would like to thank you for this excellent, thoroughly researched and well-founded report, which I have the honour of supporting on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party. However, please allow me to share a few basic thoughts on the relationship between autocrats and media professionals. Yes, journalists matter. Freedom matters. Democracy matters. Without free journalism, there is no democracy. Without free media, there is dull autocracy... 27/06/2025 | 10:15:59 Mr President, Dear colleagues, I would like to express my concern about the growing threat to democratic forces in Europe. The aim of the Council of Europe is to promote democracy and protect human rights and the rule of law in Europe. The Council of Europe was founded in response to one of the most terrible wars to have been waged in Europe by anti-freedom, autocratic, terrorist and racist forces. The Second World War was preceded by a sustained propaganda campaign trumpeting the need to... 29/01/2025 | 10:32:48 Dear Madam rapporteur, Thank you for this report and I support it wholeheartedly. "Never again" is how I saw myself in my youth. In my family, with parents who lived through the war, the war was omnipresent. Coming to terms with the madness of the Third Reich with 80 million deaths worldwide, the murder of political prisoners, the genocide of Jewish people, the targeted extermination of six million Jewish women, men and children sank into the collective consciousness. The horror was... 03/10/2024 | 11:38:01 Dear Chair, Dear colleagues, I allow myself to speak in my mother tongue, German. And thank you for this report. It shows the mercilessness of the Stalinist dictatorship and the diabolical concept. To eliminate a nation, you stage a famine and kill the pillars of society. You have read the report, I don't need to summarise it. But in times of galloping historical oblivion, in times in which personal opinions and ideologies subjugate the facts, in times in which propaganda lies soften the...