30/09/2026 | 19:54:08 Thank you colleagues. Thank you for your unity, for those who spoke, who laid amendments, to the Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers, to Ms Nika RIZOL, all of you for your support. The sham election was not an election. The opposition is in prison, in exile or in the grave and ballot boxes were accompanied and carried at gunpoint illegally through occupied Ukraine. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was shut out so the election could be whitewashed. As I say... 30/09/2026 | 18:43:49 Madam President and colleagues, The most dangerous word for European security today is not 'war'. It is 'incident'. A cable cut in the Baltic: an incident. A drone over an airport: an incident. A warehouse set alight: an incident. An assassination plot on our streets: an incident. These are not incidents, they are attacks. Attacks by a regime that has just staged an election in which the only material consideration was regime survival and the silencing of dissent. This regime, of course, is... 30/09/2026 | 17:47:49 Thank you, Madam President. Colleagues, The Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court (ICC) on a simple promise: the gravest crimes, those which shook the conscience of humanity, must not go unpunished. Articles 27 and 29 are clear: no head of state is above the law and these crimes do not expire. Yet those charged with enforcing this law are themselves now being targeted. Moscow has threatened The Hague with missiles and jailed its judges in absentia because they have sought... 30/09/2026 | 10:50:18 Thank you, Mister President. And I congratulate Ms Valentina GRIPPO on this report. When journalists are silenced, democracies and societies suffer and the vacuum is filled with those with the greatest power manufacturing their own version of reality, whilst hostile states and malign actors seek to flood our societies with disinformation designed to deepen divisions. This is particularly acute in Serbia, where, according to the Council of Europe's own Platform for the Safety of Journalists... 23/06/2026 | 19:03:57 Thank you, Mr President. I wish to congratulate Mr Max LUCKS on his report. It is also a pleasure to speak after the honourable lady who speaks so well on behalf of the Iranian diaspora. We are here to discuss the rule of law in Iran. So let me speak of a terrorist regime that has made its absence a foreign policy. Iran takes innocent people and trades them. I speak, of course, of hostage-taking. And it works because we let it. Right now, Mr Craig and Ms Lindsay FOREMAN sit in an Iranian... 23/06/2026 | 17:04:53 Thank you, Chair. I congratulate Ms Victoria TIBLOM and Mr Yunus EMRE on an unflinching report. It captures what followed the Navi Sad tragedy. 4 million people on the streets, in a country of under 7 million. The people of Serbia want what we all want: an open European democracy, free of rigged elections, corruption, state capture and the strangling of the press. Because a free press is the foundation democracy is built on. And in Serbia, that foundation is being dismantled deliberately and... 28/01/2026 | 16:58:44 Thank you, Mister President and colleagues. In the three months since the ceasefire was established, there has sadly been little progress. It is urgent that it now moves to phase two. Thankfully, the body of Mr Ran GVILI was returned this week to his family and may his memory be a blessing on all those who knew him. In January, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza was rightfully established. But sadly Mr Benjamin Netanyahu's government has not allowed them to enter Gaza, let... 27/01/2026 | 19:39:51 Thank you, Madam President. Colleagues, I congratulate Mr Zsolt NÉMETH and Mr Pablo HISPÁN on an excellent report and presentation. 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the war in Bosnia and the Dayton Peace Agreement. Across Europe, we remembered those who lost their lives in the siege of Sarajevo, in concentration camps, as victims of the Srebreniča genocide and the massacres of innocents. And we must never take peace for granted. Bosnia and Herzegovina have endured a difficult year due to... 27/01/2026 | 18:29:52 Thank you, Mister President. Freedom is never free. And yet the cost of our freedom has been borne by the people of Ukraine for the last 12 years. They have defended us all so that we can be in this Chamber today. Meanwhile, they have been underestimated time and time again. Now, as a peace deal is being discussed, we must be clear. Violence must never determine sovereignty. Every inch of Ukraine is home to a Ukrainian family which has a story that deserves to be told. Now for too many – for...