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Ms Ingjerd Schie SCHOU (Norway, EPP/CD)

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In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 22/01/2024
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 08/02/2018 to 23/01/2022
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 20/11/2009 to 07/02/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 22/11/2013 Representative - Norway
  • from 20/11/2009 to 22/11/2013 Substitute - Norway

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

  • Member: Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities (since 12/04/2025)
  • General Rapporteur on the budget and intergovernmental programme: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 25/04/2023 to 18/03/2025)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 24/01/2022 to 11/04/2025)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs: Standing Committee (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs: Bureau of the Assembly (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 26/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 24/01/2018 to 25/01/2018)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 27/06/2017 to 23/01/2018)
  • 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)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 22/11/2013)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 19/11/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 25/01/2012 to 26/06/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 23/01/2012 to 21/11/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (from 20/11/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 20/03/2023 to 31/12/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 20/03/2023 to 31/12/2023)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 23/06/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 27/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Ethics (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Ethics (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 22/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 30/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on International Economic Relations (from 27/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Karin ANDERSEN (Member): (Former) Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (from 20/11/2009 to 23/01/2012)

Interventions

Last speeches

10/04/2025 | 11:11:13 President and dear colleagues, I am a strong believer in dialogue. Through the history of the Council of Europe, dialogue has been the most prominent tool. We do not have economic or military power to enforce values or principles on nations or states. We have the power of dialogue! That is why I voted in favor of the resolution on Georgia in January. To maintain dialogue, we ratified the credentials of the Georgian delegation, but with some limitations. Still, the Georgian delegation chose to... 09/04/2025 | 17:00:05 Dear President, Dear colleagues, The backsliding of democracy has become a most pressing issue in this Assembly. This week we are debating several concrete examples of this. Türkiye is one country where the backsliding is happening before our eyes. The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul, Mr Ekrem İMAMOĞLU, is the most recent example. It is important that we as an Assembly condemn this in the strongest terms. Making sure that your opposing candidate cannot stand for election is not worthy of a... 09/04/2025 | 11:13:16 Dear President and Colleagues, and dear Mister Schwabe, We have been colleagues in the Assembly for 14 years. For many years we sat side-by-side in the hemicycle, and our surnames start with S. For many years we have worked together in the Rules Committee. We have not always agreed, but on this issue, on the fight against corruption in our Assembly and the Council of Europe, we have collaborated closely, and we fully agree. I congratulate you on this important report. Eight years have passed... 08/04/2025 | 10:39:59 President, colleagues, The election in Moldova is fresh in our minds. Foreign interference was significant. We must be vigilant in the upcoming parliamentary election. In the draft resolution our rapporteur proposed developing a broad-based definition of foreign interference. This is important. We all have a notion of what foreign interference is, but a definition we all agree on would make it easier to counter this threat. A clear distinction between foreign interference and foreign... 30/01/2025 | 11:36:10 Thank you, Madam President. I would like to start with recalling our resolution of last January, "A Democratic Future for Belarus", in which we agreed to allow regular participation of a representative delegation of the Belarusian democratic forces in the work of our Parliamentary Assembly. Today, a year later, we have the first ever Belarusian delegation present in the hemicycle and included in our work. Words matter, Madam President, but they matter more when they are followed up by action...

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