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Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS (Lithuania, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 10/10/2016
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 26/01/2009 to 09/10/2016

In the Assembly

  • since 26/01/2009 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 22/01/2007 to 21/01/2008 Substitute - Lithuania
  • from 23/01/2006 to 22/01/2007 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 24/01/2005 to 23/01/2006 Substitute - Lithuania
  • from 27/01/1997 to 09/11/2000 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 24/01/1994 to 27/01/1997 Substitute - Lithuania

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

  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 22/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and whistleblowers: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 20/06/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 14.3 of the Rules of Procedure): Bureau of the Assembly (from 18/05/2023 to 26/01/2025)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2023 to 22/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 26/01/2025)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 12/10/2018)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 11/10/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2012 to 26/01/2014)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 05/03/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2016 to 24/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 30/01/2014 to 27/01/2015)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 24/01/2013 to 29/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 26/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 26/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 03/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Arminas LYDEKA (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2023 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 25/01/2021 to 25/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2017 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2014 to 22/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Dalia KUODYTĖ (Member): (Former) Committee on Culture, Science and Education (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Arminas LYDEKA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 05/03/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Arminas LYDEKA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 23/01/2023 to 24/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2021 to 25/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2018 to 23/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2017 to 24/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 30/01/2014 to 27/01/2015)

Interventions

Last speeches

25/06/2026 | 16:52:11 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Chairwoman, Dear colleagues, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU touched the bottom – the real masterminders of international or transnational repressions, and it was high time to do that after the European Parliament did it in a fantastic resolution addressing the international repression of human rights defenders. Synchronising our moves with our colleagues in the European Parliament, we add something more. But I would like to turn your attention to concrete cases... 24/06/2026 | 17:40:31 Dear friends, We had Georgia 10 years ago. More like 10 years ago, like a leading country to the Western democratic integration and they were a shining example. Now we are facing, by mostly all of you, remarks that the country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship and on the hook of Russian totalitarian influence. Today I would like to call on Georgian authorities to free all arbitrarily detained persons and end impunity for violations committed by law enforcement agencies, including... 23/06/2026 | 12:48:41 Dear colleagues from Monaco, I would like to say thank you. It was two brilliant meetings in Monaco for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and your leadership is fantastic. My question to you is very simple. It has two parts, A and B. Question A is about how to speed up the process of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which was created by us after Reykjavík, how to strengthen, speed up and implement it.  And second, very simply, by Russian law... 22/04/2026 | 19:15:25 Dear friends, I remember the discussion. The discussion was 12 years ago, Andreas GROSS and other friends and I were supporting the Magnitsky resolution, and that was a fight like in the times of Napoleon. It was our water law fight. And when the Russia delegation put lies on our side, saying "that is not true", and we say "that it's true" and supported a Browder's investigation. MAGNITSKY is a Russian guy, just like Boris NEMTSOV, just like NAVALNY. Actually, NAVALNY was killed and poisoned... 22/04/2026 | 17:06:32 Thank you. Madam Speaker and dear friends, My mother spent four years in a Nazi camp. After she survived the terrible Stutthof concentration camp, and my grandfather Dachau, I never heard her calling for hatred. Hatred and revenge. We built this... It was built at this Council of Europe: the neglect to revenge means capital punishment. That's our core values. That's why today I will vote in favour of this resolution. I would like to thank the rapporteur. Bearing that in mind, we should have a...

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