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Ms Anne-Mari VIROLAINEN (Finland, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 24/06/2019 to 08/10/2023
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 10/03/2017 to 08/10/2017
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 03/10/2011 to 21/06/2015

In the Assembly

  • from 24/06/2019 to 08/10/2023 Representative - Finland
  • from 10/03/2017 to 08/10/2017 Representative - Finland
  • from 03/10/2011 to 21/06/2015 Representative - Finland

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/06/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 10/03/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 29/01/2014 to 21/06/2015)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Bureau of the Assembly (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Standing Committee (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 23/01/2012 to 21/06/2015)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (from 03/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 04/02/2021 to 26/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 03/10/2019 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas (from 06/09/2019 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 27/01/2014 to 21/06/2015)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Detention (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 27/06/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 30/03/2012 to 26/06/2013)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Children (from 04/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Kimmo KILJUNEN (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 24/06/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Pirkko MATTILA (Member): (Former) Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (from 20/06/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Pirkko MATTILA (Member): Sub-Committee on Health (from 04/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)

Interventions

Last speeches

26/01/2023 | 11:07:15 Mister President, Dear Colleagues, Thanks to Mr Damien COTTIER for the excellent report. I also want to thank Ms Oleksandra MATVIICHUK for your emotional speech. Russia has violated international humanitarian law in its assault on sovereign Ukraine for almost a year now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died or been wounded in the defence of their home country. Millions have been forced to either leave their homes or live in inhuman conditions with little water, heat, food or shelter, and... 13/10/2022 | 11:58:28 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to thank Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS for a comprehensive report. I also want to thank Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA, and other Ukrainian colleagues for your powerful speeches. Our support for Ukraine is solid as a rock. We feel and live by your bravery and look up to your determination. We also want to guarantee that in Ukraine, freedom and democracy prevails. Ukraine must be supported by all means necessary. That means that Ukraine shall receive... 21/06/2022 | 18:57:41 Dear President, Dear Colleagues, I want to thank Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR for her excellent report. The report is essentially about democracy in Russia. The report discloses its absence, but only that. It depicts a clear perversion of democracy. Examples in this report are about a society where fear is the predominant state amongst people. The fate of political prisoners portrays the brute reality of today’s Russian society. In today’s Russia, the consequence of carrying out the most... 27/04/2022 | 16:07:43 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I want to express my utmost respect to Ukraine in the fight for freedom, not only for yourself but for all of us. I pay homage to every fallen Ukrainian who has resisted Russia's completely unjustified attack on a sovereign country. The Russian Federation has committed systematic and massive war crimes. Russia has carried out murders and forced disappearances, deportations, imprisonments, torture, rape and mass desecration of corpses... 26/01/2022 | 18:51:34 Dear Madam President, Dear Colleagues, I'd like to thank Mr Jacques MAIRE for the great work he has committed to this report. It portrays the events and investigation of poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny very widely and clearly. The report finds that the poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny was done by using a toxic nerve agent produced in a Russian state lab. The evidence shows that Mr Alexei Navalny's symptoms did not occur due to low blood sugar levels. What we are talking about here is poisoning a...

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