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Ms Belén HOYO (Spain, EPP/CD)

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Representative
Deputy
Partido Popular

Congreso de los Diputados
ES - 28071 - Madrid
Spain

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 24/01/2022
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 07/12/2016 to 24/02/2020
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 25/11/2016 to 06/12/2016

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2024 Representative - Spain
  • from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024 Substitute - Spain
  • from 30/09/2019 to 24/02/2020 Substitute - Spain
  • from 24/06/2019 to 29/09/2019 Representative - Spain
  • from 25/11/2016 to 23/06/2019 Substitute - Spain

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

  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/01/2025 to 27/01/2026)
  • Alternate EPP/CD: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 04/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 27/06/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 24/02/2020)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 28/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 02/03/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 23/01/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Gonzalo ROBLES (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 07/03/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Susana SUMELZO (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 13/10/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Pablo HISPÁN (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 24/01/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Pablo HISPÁN (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 02/03/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Antón GÓMEZ-REINO (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2022 to 12/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr José ZARAGOZA (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 01/03/2019 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 27/01/2017 to 26/02/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Susana SUMELZO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 27/01/2022 to 01/03/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Carmen LEYTE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2023 to 21/01/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 12:10:55 Thank you very much, Madam President.  Ladies and gentlemen,  I really believe that all of us here today – and in particular those of us who have a responsibility of representation in this Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – we must make an effort to maintain a balanced position based on common sense. And, above all, we should avoid using such a complex and painful conflict as this to reflect national political debates.   The reality is clear. We're facing an escalation of... 22/04/2026 | 10:43:29 Thank you very much indeed, Madam President. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on an excellent job, because obviously we have to fight against violence against women and sexual violence in particular. And in our political group, we are very much in favour of the report, as well as instruments to protect women and children. And we're all for promoting genuine equality and stamping out all forms of violence against the dignity and freedom of women. In recent... 26/01/2026 | 17:01:18 Thank you very much, Madam President. Ladies and gentlemen,  Democracy is undergoing difficult times. We have radicalism, polarisation, we have foreign interference and these all attempt to undermine our rule of law on a daily basis. We have a number of cases that have been addressed in the various reports of our Monitoring Committee. I would even include territorial integrity for our nations, which is also under threat.  My group would like to call out Russia's invasion of Ukraine once again... 02/10/2025 | 12:03:16 Thank you President. Honourable colleagues, The brutal attack of October 2023, perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organisation, should never have happened. It was a massacre which tore into a music festival, leaving hundreds of young people either murdered or hostages. Nor should the completely disproportionate response have occurred, which was conducted by Benjamin NETANYAHU's government in Gaza, a military offensive whose consequences are being paid for with the most terrible suffering... 01/10/2025 | 18:53:33 Thank you very much President. Colleagues, I'll speak in Spanish. From the Group of the European People's Party, we think that this is helping to guarantee human rights and the rule of law. We should open our doors to Russian democratic forces. We must give a voice to that part of society that Vladimir PUTIN is trying to silence. We need to strengthen co-operation with human rights activists, independent media, free civil society and all democratic forces in Russia which are fighting for a...

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