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Mr Yves CRUCHTEN (Luxembourg, SOC)

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Representative
Deputy
Parti ouvrier socialiste (LSAP)

Chambre des Députés
LU - 1728 - Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Working language: French

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2018

Latest news

27/06/2018 - Session Concern about new restrictions on NGO activities 21/06/2018 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rapporteur concerned at adoption of so-called ‘Stop Soros’ law 18/06/2018 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rapporteurs welcome Belarus court decision to suspend and review death sentences 18/06/2018 - Political Affairs and Democracy Rapporteurs welcome Belarus court decision to suspend and review death sentences 14/06/2018 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rapporteur welcomes Palestine’s pledge to abolish the death penalty

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 03/02/2025
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 22/01/2024 to 02/02/2025
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 21/01/2018
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialist Group from 23/01/2017 to 31/07/2017
  • Member: Socialist Group from 25/01/2015 to 22/01/2017
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialist Group from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2015

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2024 Representative - Luxembourg
  • from 27/01/2014 to 20/01/2019 Representative - Luxembourg

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 22/01/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 22/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 06/06/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 01/06/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 13/12/2016 to 12/12/2018)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 27/11/2015 to 25/01/2016)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 26/01/2015 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2014 to 24/06/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 25/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans (since 25/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 10/09/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 01/06/2018 to 09/09/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Octavie MODERT (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 22/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Gusty GRAAS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 25/06/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Anne BRASSEUR (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/01/2016 to 31/05/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Françoise HETTO-GAASCH (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 07/03/2014 to 26/01/2016)
  • Alternate of Ms Françoise HETTO-GAASCH (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/01/2014 to 26/11/2015)
  • Alternate of Ms Octavie MODERT (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Gusty GRAAS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 10/09/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Anne BRASSEUR (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 13/11/2017 to 31/05/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Françoise HETTO-GAASCH (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 29/01/2014 to 27/11/2015)

Interventions

Last speeches

24/01/2024 | 18:07:18 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman. I was expecting to have our Azeri colleagues here to take the floor, that's why I wanted to take the floor as well. As you know, I've been away here from this Assembly for five years now. I'm coming back, and I'm coming to the news that time travel is actually possible, because I feel [we have] turned back to the year 2013 or 2018. We deal today with the exact same problems with Azerbaijan as 10 years ago. And they looked at the resolutions that are...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

07/06/2018 | Doc. 14570 | Report New restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States 08/01/2016 | Doc. 13940 | Report How to prevent inappropriate restrictions on NGO activities in Europe?

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

23/04/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16155 | Written declaration Upholding the rights to protest: defending the Budapest Pride march 06/02/2025 | Doc. 16115 | Motion for a resolution The deterioration of women's rights in Afghanistan: a need for global response 05/02/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 30/09/2024 | Doc. 16049 | Written declaration Political prosecution in Poland from 2015 to 2023 must be audited and victims rehabilitated

Votes on adopted texts

10/04/2025 | Doc. 16150, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law 10/04/2025 | Doc. 16153, vote on the draft text for resolution The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) “Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia” 09/04/2025 | Doc. 16138, vote on the draft text for resolution Respect for the rule of law and the fight against corruption within the Council of Europe 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16131, vote on the draft text for recommendation Foreign interference a threat to democratic security in Europe 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16131, vote on the draft text for resolution Foreign interference a threat to democratic security in Europe