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Mr Zsolt NÉMETH (Hungary, ECPA)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Chairperson: European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates since 03/02/2025
  • Chairperson: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 30/09/2024 to 03/02/2025
  • Vice-Chairperson: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 24/01/2022 to 29/09/2024
  • Bureau: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 21/06/2021 to 23/01/2022
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 18/04/2021 to 20/06/2021
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 25/06/2014 to 17/04/2021
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 23/06/2014 to 24/06/2014

In the Assembly

  • since 23/06/2014 Representative - Hungary
  • from 24/06/2002 to 21/05/2010 Representative - Hungary
  • from 03/10/1994 to 21/09/1998 Representative - Hungary
  • from 27/09/1993 to 03/10/1994 Substitute - Hungary

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2025)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Presidential Committee (since 30/09/2024)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Bureau of the Assembly (since 30/09/2024)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Standing Committee (since 30/09/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 30/09/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 30/09/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 30/09/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 30/09/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 22/01/2024 to 29/09/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 28/05/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Bureau of the Assembly (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Standing Committee (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 14.3 of the Rules of Procedure): Bureau of the Assembly (from 15/05/2020 to 19/05/2022)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 28/01/2020 to 18/04/2021)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 30/01/2015 to 27/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 23/06/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/06/2014 to 04/10/2024)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2006 to 20/01/2008)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 27/01/2022 to 31/12/2023)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 19/04/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 24/01/2017 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Rózsa HOFFMANN (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/06/2014 to 31/05/2018)

Interventions

Last speeches

28/01/2025 | 10:34:45 Thank you, Mister President, dear colleagues, Secretary General, dear Dora, Congratulations for this important report. I think we know that we need to look outside the Council of Europe. We need to look outside Europe under present global circumstances. Our attention every day is focusing today on Washington D.C., what's happening there. I think this report is extremely important from this perspective. It helps us to look outside Europe I am glad we have this report in front of us. I would... 27/01/2025 | 16:54:04 Thank you very much for the floor, Mister President. I would like to congratulate the rapporteurs concerning Georgia. Dear colleagues, Yes, I think we need to talk about Azerbaijan as well. Last year we have experienced a decision which we are still following. I think a theoretical decision on our side is we need to consider very seriously if challenging the credentials is an appropriate instrument or not to divert into the right direction countries which we intend to divert. I think it is a... 02/10/2024 | 18:49:12 Thank you, President, and thank you, colleagues, for your important contributions. I would like to express my gratitude to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) authorities for the co-operation, all the political parties, including the members of parliament in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). I would like to thank you very much for your co-operation while we have been preparing this report after six years. Don't forget, this has been quite a long process, but I think it... 02/10/2024 | 18:06:50 Alexander NIKOLOSKI has been appointed as member of government in North Macedonia. I have the honour to congratulate him from this place and I also have the honour of presenting our report on Bosnia and Herzegovina with his full support. Mister NIKOLOSKI and I consider that the discussion of this report is very timely because many developments have occurred over the last two years in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In some of our countries, these developments went unnoticed among the dramatic flow of... 02/10/2024 | 16:03:28 Thank you, Mister President. And dear colleagues, I look forward to co-operating with you as well and the Secretary General. Dear colleagues, I would like to advise this discussion to be extremely cautious. I don't think that we are in a situation where we could say that we are moving on chartered waters. This is the first time of this type of decision in the life of the Parliamentary Assembly. And even now it is not without very serious conclusions. I believe that we should pay attention to...

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