03/10/2025 | 10:44:37 Thank you, Mister President, Sexual violence, sexual abuse or rape against anyone, of any gender, is an abomination, and even more so when it is perpetrated against children. However, as the report points out, when it comes to sexual violence against men, most of our societies still have strong taboos. Most victims still consider that being a victim of this kind of violence, abuse or rape is a weakness or an expression of weakness. So obviously, everything proposed in this report is excellent... 02/10/2025 | 17:24:26 Thank you, Mister Chairman, Sorry, my apologies. I'd just like to say a few brief words to congratulate Ms Ingjerd Schie SCHOU on her excellent report. These are important subjects, some of which we have just discussed this afternoon in the ad hoc Committee on the New Democratic Pact for Europe. Finding ways to improve the involvement of our fellow citizens in the democratic life of their countries remains, I think, one of the objectives of these institutions, so I will support this report. I... 02/10/2025 | 16:31:51 Thank you, Mister President, I will try not to repeat too much of what my colleagues have already said, as much has already been said. Nevertheless, since October, almost a year now, we in this House have been denouncing Georgia's deviation from the model that we defend here. The municipal elections that are due to take place on 4 October, i.e. Sunday, to which no observers have been invited, in a country where parties have been banned and opposition leaders imprisoned, will not allow us to... 02/10/2025 | 10:45:16 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Thank you, Mr Iulian BULAI, for this excellent report, which enables us to have this important debate, and since you quoted CICERO, I'm going to start by quoting Julius CAESAR: "si vis pacem, para bellum" – "if you want peace, prepare for war". Because that's what we're facing today: war. For one month in September, drones flew over Romania, Poland, Denmark and Norway. MiG-31s flew for 12 minutes in Estonian airspace. Twelve minutes! That's an eternity, especially... 30/09/2025 | 17:13:28 Thank you, Mr President. Thank you to Mr Zsolt NÉMETH for his report and to the President Maulen ASHIMBAYEV, for his speech. Thank you very much. Kazakhstan, perhaps we should remember, is a country that is quite far from us. It is mainly an Asian country, with the Russian Federation on one side and the People's Republic of China on the other. Two states which, I think it's fair to say, are not great democracies. I think we can all agree on that. That makes the work that has been done since... 29/09/2025 | 12:12:15 Thank you, Chair. A lot has already been said, so I'll try to be brief. The last time we met here was for the signing of the agreement creating a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which, along with the Register of Damages, completes a long-standing work that is still going on, and that's positive. Personally, I am proud to have played a part in this and to continue to do so. I would also like to welcome the report by Mr Iulian BULAI on the elections in Poland... 25/06/2025 | 20:36:31 Thank you, Mr Chairman. I'm part of a generation that lived through the days when those who warned us about climate change were regarded as hippies and a bit eccentric. Happily, that's no longer the case. The Reykjavik Declaration mentions the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental right. And, as recently as a month ago, at the 134th meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, a strategy for the environment was adopted in Luxembourg on this occasion. And... 25/06/2025 | 19:43:19 Thank you, President. Exactly ten years ago, in France, on 7 and 9 January 2015, the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and the Hyper Cacher were attacked. A few months later, on 13 November, the Bataclan was attacked. In a way, this was conventional terrorism. The millennium opened with two planes crashing into high-rise buildings, or six years earlier, in the Japanese subway, sarin gas was released. Threats are becoming protean, and this Convention is a welcome step towards adapting our legal tools... 24/06/2025 | 10:44:00 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Today's debate is almost a paradox. Basically, there is the question of migration, which is an issue that runs through most of our countries, and which tends to give rise to populism. Populists who are the first to attack the independence of the judiciary. The independence of the judiciary, which is one of the foundations of the rule of law and of the European Court of Human Rights, is precious to us. In the case of the European Court, this independence is almost... 23/06/2025 | 12:16:11 Thank you, Mr Chairman, For months, almost years, we've been talking here about the setbacks to democracy, and although the report on the elections in Albania mentions that things went well overall, if we listen to the rapporteur right to the end, we hear about pressure, organised crime, vote-buying and a number of things that are detrimental to a functional election. Elections are the foundation of democracy. A free and fair election, with equitable access to the media, for example, was also...