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Mr Hannes GERMANN (Switzerland, ALDE)

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Representative
Member of the Council of States
Union démocratique du centre

Conseil des Etats
CH-3003 - Berne
Switzerland

www.hannesgermann.ch

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 25/01/2016

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Representative - Switzerland
  • from 25/01/2016 to 23/01/2022 Substitute - Switzerland

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 22/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/04/2022 to 27/04/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 11/09/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Children (from 24/01/2017 to 23/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2016 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Thomas MÜLLER (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 25/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 25/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Roland Rino BÜCHEL (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Sibel ARSLAN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 27/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Franziska ROTH (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 23/01/2024 to 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 21/06/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Niklaus-Samuel GUGGER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 28/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Ms Marina CAROBBIO GUSCETTI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 27/09/2021 to 18/06/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Christian LEVRAT (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 15/09/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Christian LEVRAT (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 09/09/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Ada MARRA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 29/01/2020 to 24/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 25/06/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Filippo LOMBARDI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 27/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (since 26/01/2016)
  • Alternate of Ms Liliane MAURY PASQUIER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Public Health (from 27/01/2016 to 25/01/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

03/10/2025 | 11:33:49 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank the Committee for the draft resolution. The document contributes significantly to clarifying important provisions for the proper performance of the tasks and mandates of the Council of states. In this context, a member of our delegation was recently refused entry to a certain country. Given that such unpleasant incidents occur time and again, there is a clear need for action. I consider the amendments... 28/04/2022 | 13:11:57 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Allow me to make a small preliminary remark as a representative of the Swiss Confederation. As you are probably aware, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 imposed neutrality on Switzerland. Thanks to neutrality, we have always been able to play an important mediating role in conflicts or acts of war. I refer to international Geneva. Neutrality as such is non-negotiable, but it must be interpreted differently depending on the situation. In the...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

25/06/2024 | Doc. 16015 | Motion for a resolution Bürgenstock summit on peace in Ukraine: paving the way 21/11/2023 | Doc. 15866 | Motion for a resolution Elections in times of crisis 02/05/2017 | Doc. 14310 | Motion for a resolution Development aid: a tool for preventing migration crises 30/06/2016 | Doc. 14118 | Motion for a resolution The challenge of the demographic boom expected in Africa: what is Europe’s implication? 23/06/2016 | Doc. 14106 | Motion for a resolution Growing hate speech and role of the political leaders in fighting hate crime: follow-up to ECRI Recommendations

Votes on adopted texts

29/01/2026 | Doc. 16336, vote on the draft text for resolution Political crisis in the broader Middle East: the need to protect human rights and the rights of all minority groups 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16315, vote on the draft text for resolution For a ban on conversion practices 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16335, vote on the draft text for recommendation The 65th anniversary of the European Social Charter: social rights as the foundation of resilient democracies and social justice 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16335, vote on the draft text for resolution The 65th anniversary of the European Social Charter: social rights as the foundation of resilient democracies and social justice 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16317, vote on the draft text for resolution Post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia