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Mr Viorel Riceard BADEA

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Substitute
Senator
Liberal Democratic Party

Senatul României
RO - 050711 - Bucarest
Romania

viorel.badea@senat.ro

Working language: French

Declarations of interests:
2020 , 2019 , 2018

Latest news

22/09/2020 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Leaving millions of labour migrants’ children without parental care is a violation of human rights 24/01/2019 - Session Safeguarding the rights of persons belonging to national minorities 12/04/2018 - Election observation Azerbaijan election lacked genuine competition in an environment of curtailed rights and freedoms, observers say 30/05/2017 - Standing Committee Guaranteeing the employment rights of domestic workers 25/04/2017 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development The need to recognise domestic work as ‘real work’

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 27/04/2009

In the Assembly

  • since 08/03/2013 Substitute-Romania
  • from 27/04/2009 to 08/03/2013 Representative-Romania

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

  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 31/01/2020)
  • 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)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (since 23/04/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Children (since 27/04/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 10/03/2017)
  • 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 (since 21/01/2019)
  • 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 (since 24/04/2017)
  • 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

27/06/2019 | 11:04:14 Dear colleagues, I would first of all like to congratulate the rapporteurs on their initiative in drawing up these reports on the violation of the rights of children in its most serious forms, namely violence, abuse, exploitation and torture. I am speaking as rapporteur for the Committee on Social Affairs, with regard to the impact of migration and work on children left without parents in their countries of origin. Ladies and gentlemen, the protection of children's rights requires a very... 24/01/2019 | 19:49:36 Thank you very much to all those who commended the report, and thanks, too, to those of you who did not like the report so much. That is the beauty of this debating Chamber. What I have seen here tonight is that there are some parliamentarians who look towards the future, whereas others look back towards history. Those who are looking to the future felt that this discussion was very important, because we are inviting the States who have not ratified the Framework Convention to come in and... 24/01/2019 | 18:45:50 It is my honour to present to the Assembly a report on persons belonging to national minorities. I am sorry to say that this subject is no longer of such interest in the Council of Europe as it was more than 20 years ago, when the Organisation brought into force the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The drop in interest in the issue culminated in 2011, with the scrapping of the Committee of Experts on Issues relating to the Protection of National Minorities. Only...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

26/10/2020 | Doc. 15173 | Report Impact of labour migration on left-behind children 12/12/2018 | Doc. 14779 | Report Promoting the rights of persons belonging to national minorities 15/05/2017 | Doc. 14322 | Report The employment rights of domestic workers, especially women, in Europe 31/03/2015 | Doc. 13740 | Report Equality and non-discrimination in the access to justice

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

30/01/2020 | Doc. 15059 | Written declaration Support for Moldovan Parliament’s initiatives in restoring the rule of law 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15052 | Motion for a resolution Condemnation of antisemitism and of the goals of the BDS-Movement 02/07/2019 | Doc. 14941 | Motion for a resolution Adopting new tools in the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe 28/06/2019 | Doc. 14937 | Written declaration Adopting new tools in the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe 27/06/2019 | Doc. 14930 | Motion for a resolution Ukraine failed to live up to its commitments regarding the language rights of national minorities

Votes on adopted texts

29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for resolution The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for recommendation The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15025, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland 01/10/2019 | Doc. 14958, vote on the draft text for resolution Improving the protection of whistle-blowers all over Europe 01/10/2019 | Doc. 14958, vote on the draft text for recommendation Improving the protection of whistle-blowers all over Europe