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Ms Yelyzaveta YASKO (Ukraine, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 27/01/2020

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Substitute - Ukraine
  • from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022 Representative - Ukraine

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

  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 29/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2025 to 25/01/2026)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 25/01/2021)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2020 to 11/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 29/01/2020 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Taras BATENKO (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 28/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Volodymyr TSABAL (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 26/01/2026 to 27/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Lesia ZABURANNA (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 27/01/2020 to 25/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Serhii SOBOLIEV (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Lesia VASYLENKO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 12:04:57 Today the issue of peace and security in the Middle East goes beyond the region. And I'm sure that each of us in Europe feels the consequences of all of that. The global economy, the international legal order and even short-term disruption of key transport chains or in particular the Strait of Hormuz are already having tangible consequences on our economy and especially for European states. Regarding the humanitarian dimension, I also don't need to mention how bad it is. For Ukraine, this is... 23/04/2026 | 10:33:52 Dear colleagues, For me, when I speak about the war in Ukraine again and again, I often actually find myself in a situation when I don't know, how can I repeat the same things all over again for so many years? And as our colleagues said, we are also people. Yes, I think we have a lot of steel inside us, but it doesn't mean that we don't want to have some normal things in our lives. And this winter I found myself in my apartment when it was six degrees and it was not possible to sleep in the... 21/04/2026 | 18:26:53 Religious discrimination usually doesn't come as an isolated form of discrimination. It usually comes together with ethnic or gender discrimination. But, actually, it's religious discrimination that is so often being used as a weapon by many authoritarian regimes. And in my speech, I want to mention how Russia is actually using religion to persecute many ethnic groups inside Russia. And I also want to mention the Crimean Tatars and Crimea. When Crimea was annexed in 2014, what Russia was... 21/04/2026 | 16:43:15 Dear colleagues, When we had this discussion in our Committee, it was very interesting to hear that almost all of us had had quite crazy stories of the hate against us, as politicians. Some of us have had it more, some of us less. I also want to share just my entrance into politics seven years ago, and the way I actually encountered hate speech at that moment. It happened to me during the first months of being a member of the parliament. At that time I was appointed as the head of our... 28/01/2026 | 10:28:17 Dear colleagues, I want to thank the rapporteur for this report and especially for providing very concrete recommendations such as lowering the voting age and providing more mandates for young people. But as a Ukrainian, I want to say, let's be very honest. In my country, in my society, when the state was not delivering opportunities for young people, what did we do? We were trying to fill those gaps ourselves. When the war started in 2014 and our state wasn't able to deliver some functions...

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