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Mr Andrej ŠIRCELJ (Slovenia, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 29/09/2014 to 03/04/2020

In the Assembly

  • from 29/09/2014 to 03/04/2020 Representative - Slovenia

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

  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 23/11/2018 to 03/04/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/11/2018 to 03/04/2020)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 29/01/2016 to 03/04/2020)
  • Alternate EPP/CD: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 29/01/2016 to 03/04/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 29/09/2014 to 22/11/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 11/12/2018 to 27/01/2020)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on Armenia): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 11/10/2018 to 03/04/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2017 to 23/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Environment and Energy (from 22/04/2015 to 25/01/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 22/04/2015 to 23/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/01/2015 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 30/09/2014 to 21/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Rule of Law (from 30/09/2014 to 10/12/2014)
  • Alternate of Ms Meira HOT (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 29/11/2019 to 03/04/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Milan BRGLEZ (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 23/11/2018 to 14/11/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Andreja ZABRET (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 23/11/2018 to 03/04/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Jan ŠKOBERNE (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 28/09/2015 to 22/11/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Andreja KATIČ (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 29/09/2014 to 27/09/2015)

Interventions

Last speeches

02/10/2019 | 16:31:32 Thank you Madame Chair. I would like to welcome the report relating to the Council of Europe Development bank. I think we could all agree that in the more and more interrelated global world it is often difficult to manage the corporate or profit-oriented identity of the bank and its social mission. But this report presents how the CEB successfully manages risk on one hand and supports high value-added social projects on the other hand. I fully support CEB efforts to bolster sustainable and... 09/04/2019 | 15:53:34 It is clear that the European Parliament and the European Commission have developed several monitoring instruments in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, and it is also clear that they have been referring more and more to the work done by monitoring entities of the Council of Europe. That cannot be ignored. We need to take the positive attitude, which is that that is promoting the Assembly’s monitoring procedure by accentuating our co-operation with the European Union... 21/01/2019 | 17:21:29 I congratulate all the rapporteurs on their work. As a member of the ad hoc committee for the election observation mission in Armenia, I would like to add some observations about the elections in that country. As the rapporteur has already explained, the fundamental freedoms of expression, association, and assembly were generally respected during the campaign and on election day. For the first time in Armenia, the campaign culminated in a three-hour, genuine debate, live on public TV. However...

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