Official visit to Ukraine

by Lucie | CETCET. FebFeb. JJJJ

Check against delivery Speech by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe   Good morning. There is nothing I can say today that matches what people here have lived through. Nothing that fills what has been taken. Nothing that makes this winter easier....

Event at the University of Athens: “Democracy, the Rule of Law, Human Rights. The Council of Europe in the Face of Contemporary Challenges”

by Lucie | CETCET. FebFeb. JJJJ

Check against delivery Speech by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe   Minister Floridis, Deputy Minister Papadopoulou, Vice-Rector Papaioannou, Dean Christodoulou, Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, dear...

International Conference – “Shaping democratic renewal: civic space and the path to a New Democratic Pact for Europe”

by Lucie | CETCET. FebFeb. JJJJ

Check against delivery Speech by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe   Ambassador Cujbă, Commissioner O’Flaherty, Excellencies, Dear participants,   There is a photograph of Václav Havel outside my office. It was taken thirty years ago, here in...

Ceremony of presentation of the gift of Armenia to the Council of Europe

by Lucie | CETCET. JanJan. JJJJ

Check against delivery Speech by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe   Minister Mirzoyan, Ambassador Papikyan, PACE President Bayr, Excellencies, Members of Armenia’s delegation, Colleagues, Some gifts are presented. Others are entrusted. They are...

Ceremony marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

by Lucie | CETCET. JanJan. JJJJ

Check against delivery Speech by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe   A name is the beginning of human dignity. The Holocaust started by taking that away. Numbers instead of names. Erasure instead of memory. So much has been said, and yet nothing...