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Mr Viorel-Riceard BADEA (Romania, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 27/04/2009 to 22/01/2023

In the Assembly

  • from 19/03/2021 to 22/01/2023 Representative - Romania
  • from 08/03/2013 to 18/03/2021 Substitute - Romania
  • from 27/04/2009 to 08/03/2013 Representative - Romania

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 25/01/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/01/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 31/01/2020 to 22/01/2023)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 24/04/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2017 to 09/03/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2017 to 23/04/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2012 to 07/03/2013)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2012 to 07/03/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 27/04/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (from 27/04/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 27/04/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 23/04/2018 to 20/04/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Children (from 27/04/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 10/03/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 25/06/2015 to 23/01/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 28/01/2015 to 26/04/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 29/09/2014 to 25/01/2015)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 05/03/2014 to 09/03/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 07/08/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on conflict prevention through dialogue and reconciliation (from 26/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 23/01/2012 to 06/03/2012)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on conflict prevention through dialogue and reconciliation (from 06/09/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on conflict prevention through dialogue and reconciliation (from 27/04/2009 to 06/09/2011)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Development Issues (from 27/04/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Iulian BULAI (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Cristina-Mădălina PRUNĂ (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 24/04/2017 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Florina-Ruxandra JIPA (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 18/11/2014 to 22/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Cezar Florin PREDA (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 29/09/2014 to 25/01/2015)
  • Alternate of Mr Attila KORODI (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 08/03/2013 to 28/09/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Ionuț-Marian STROE (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 26/01/2015 to 23/04/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Damian DRĂGHICI (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 08/03/2013 to 17/11/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Cezar Florin PREDA (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/04/2017 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Diana STOICA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 21/04/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Liviu Ioan Adrian PLEȘOIANU (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 24/01/2018 to 22/04/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Attila KORODI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 30/01/2014 to 28/09/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Attila KORODI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 25/04/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Corneliu-Mugurel COZMANCIUC (Full Member): Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 30/01/2014 to 25/01/2015)
  • Alternate of Mr Damian DRĂGHICI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 23/04/2013 to 04/03/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/06/2012 to 07/08/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN (Chairperson): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 26/01/2012 to 27/06/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/04/2009 to 14/04/2011)

Interventions

Last speeches

12/10/2022 | 17:45:54 Thank you very much, President. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteurs. I would like to congratulate them for a well-structured report touching upon key issues concerning the democratic feature, the element of a larger democracy in Hungary and the constitutional issues that exist in that country.  We are concerned about a number of issues which are taking place in Hungary, because we in Romania are partners with Hungary on a number of joint projects. We also have issues as far as... 27/04/2022 | 16:00:33 Thank you, Chairman. First of all I would like to extend my compliments to Mr Frank SCHWABE for his excellent report. We have already been seeing for two months, when the war of aggression launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine began, completely ignoring and flagrantly violating, the international law and its obligations. Two months in which the humanitarian, economic and security consequences are being felt in Europe and throughout the world. Two months in which the member States... 15/03/2022 | 12:00:21 Dear Colleagues, I will start by telling you a Russian proverb that we in Romania know very well, which goes like this "We will fight for peace until no stone is left upon stone". Now you can understand very well what Mr Minister Sergei Viktorovich LAVROV said, that this is not an attack on Ukraine, but it is, I know, something to restore the freedom of the Russians. Here is what can I tell you. Practically, the Russian Federation, through military aggression against Ukraine, has clearly... 24/06/2021 | 10:16:42 Dear colleagues, dear President, First of all, I would like to express my greatest support for this report, because of the proposals that the draft resolution and the draft recommendation contain. As a senator representing Romanians living beyond the country's borders, I am following this topic with great interest and I am concerned about the way in which my fellow citizens are integrated in the states where they have chosen to live, in the majority of cases, as a result of the European Union... 22/06/2021 | 18:45:10 Thank you, Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank Baroness Doreen Massey, who has practically become the voice of the children in the Chamber for her initiative in creating this report, which draws our attention to the problems faced by children in the epidemiological context generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. I am pleased to find in the draft resolution references to the situation of children whose parents are working abroad, a subject which, as you know, I discussed during the work...

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