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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:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2018

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Latest news

24/05/2026 - Monitoring Türkiye: opposition must not be silenced through force or judicial pressure 27/04/2026 - Monitoring Open letter by rapporteurs of European institutions on the situation of local democracy in Türkiye 01/10/2025 - Session PACE decides to close the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria 30/06/2025 - Monitoring Post-monitoring visit of PACE rapporteurs to Bulgaria 27/06/2018 - Session Concern about new restrictions on NGO activities

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 26/01/2026
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 03/02/2025 to 25/01/2026
  • 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 (from 23/01/2024 to 27/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 23/01/2024 to 26/01/2026)
  • 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

22/04/2026 | 17:03:14 Ms Antoinette CHAHINE, thank you for your emotional but very important testimony. Be assured that you have our full sympathy and solidarity. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank Ms Gala VELDHOEN for her excellent work. This report is clear, principled and uncompromising. The death penalty has no place in a society built on human dignity. It violates the right to life. It is irreversible and it is incompatible with the values we defend in this Assembly every single day. Europe has made a... 01/10/2025 | 18:26:18 Thank you, Mister Chair. And also thank you all the colleagues that have taken the floor. May I summarise what was just said? Bulgaria is on the right track, but not all issues concerning human rights, democracy and the rule of law have been addressed to complete satisfaction. Is everything perfect in Bulgaria? Absolutely not. This resolution and our report leave Bulgaria with some homework to complete. Therefore, and I think many of you have pointed out the issues of concern... Therefore... 01/10/2025 | 17:59:09 Dear colleagues, As you heard, I have to excuse my colleague Ms Deborah BERGAMINI, who unfortunately can't be with us today. Allow me to thank her for her good and friendly co-operation, as well as the staff of the Assembly for their dedicated work on this report.  You may recall that in March 2024 the Monitoring Committee adopted a draft resolution and report on the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, prepared together with our former colleague, Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR. The... 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

11/09/2025 | Doc. 16246 | Report Post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria 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

18/05/2026 | Doc. 16407 | Motion for a resolution Migration and Europe’s colonial past: towards historical justice and democratic resilience 07/05/2026 | Doc. 16403 | Motion for a resolution Promoting the concept of comprehensive security in Council of Europe member States 05/05/2026 | Doc. 16337 | Written declaration Restrictions on the right of peaceful assembly and their impact on democratic standards 14/04/2026 | Doc. 16376 | Motion for a resolution Democratic security in the Western Balkans 03/03/2026 | Doc. 16354 | Motion for a resolution Attacks on the rights of LGBTI persons in Europe: a threat to democracy

Votes on adopted texts

22/04/2026 | Doc. 16370, vote on the draft text for resolution Paving the way for a culture of consent 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16372, vote on the draft text for resolution Promoting the Istanbul Convention and improving its implementation: building on lessons learnt 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16375 rev, vote on the draft text for resolution Towards the universal abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16334, vote on the draft text for resolution Threats against the international order: the case of Greenland 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16336, vote on the draft text for resolution Political crisis in the broader Middle East: the need to protect human rights and the rights of all minority groups