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Mr John HOWELL (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 26/10/2023
  • Treasurer: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 27/01/2020 to 26/10/2023
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 05/10/2019 to 26/01/2020
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group from 22/01/2018 to 04/10/2019
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 27/11/2015 to 21/01/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 27/11/2015 Representative - United Kingdom

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 24/06/2019 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/11/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 25/01/2016 to 23/11/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/11/2015 to 24/01/2016)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on Türkiye): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 27/01/2020 to 26/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 06/12/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 25/01/2016 to 23/11/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Jerome MAYHEW (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Dame Cheryl GILLAN (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 24/11/2017 to 04/04/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Tommy SHEPPARD (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Kerry MCCARTHY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 26/01/2017 to 23/11/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Paula SHERRIFF (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 13/10/2016 to 22/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Phil WILSON (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 14/12/2017 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Sir Roger GALE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2016 to 12/10/2016)

Interventions

Last speeches

11/10/2023 | 16:49:18 Thank you, Mister President. We are all, I cannot imagine otherwise, engulfed in sadness and horror today. Just as our first speaker, Ms Meirav BEN ARI, was. To summarise, 1 200 people are dead. Almost 3 000 injured. There are reports of babies beheaded, and 17 people from my own country have also been killed. Still the terrorists come. They come across the sea onto the Zikim beach where they are killed. The town of Sderot is being evacuated. I mentioned this earlier in the week, because this... 10/10/2023 | 16:50:42 Thank you very much, Madam President. The sort of Europe that I wanted for my children was one without the ideology of the Cold War. How we got trapped into seeing the world as right-wing or left wing is the subject of much discussion and of numerous PhDs. I feel the Europe that I know has got into a world of extremists on all sides, in all countries, almost – in almost all countries, extremist groups are gaining strength. Europe is no less clean than anywhere else. On the one side, within... 09/10/2023 | 16:07:06 Thank you very much Mister President, I would like to thank Mr Aleksander POCIEJ for his report. I'm sure it does not matter which political party we all originated from, but we should all wish him luck in the Polish general elections. I was very pleased to see his use of the Venice Commission as part of that, or of the Polish opposition. I urge all countries to look at that to resolve issues. In the question of Mr Osman Kavala, which he raised, I don't wish to raise false hope, but there is... 21/06/2023 | 16:46:47 Thank you very much. The Committee is in favour of this Amendment? Yes? Thank you. I will now put the oral sub-Amendment to the vote. The vote is now open. The vote is now closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The oral sub-Amendment is agreed to. We will now consider the main Amendment as sub-amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the Amendment as sub-amendment. I don't see anybody. What is the opinion of the Committee? Thank you very much. I shall now put the Amendment 1 to the... 20/06/2023 | 16:28:47 Thank you very much. Let me start by congratulating the rapporteur on a very good report on this area. Let me congratulate too Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA for what she has said. I fully support those who are seeking a democratic return for Belarus. I too am one of those UK parliamentarians who have adopted a Belarusian political prisoner; we communicate with them to hopefully make them feel better. If you look at the challenges from the point of view of our own three pillars, as far as...

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