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Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Switzerland, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Treasurer: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 28/09/2025
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 26/01/2020
  • Member: Socialist Group from 25/01/2016 to 31/07/2017

In the Assembly

  • from 24/01/2022 to 28/09/2025 Substitute - Switzerland
  • from 25/01/2016 to 23/01/2022 Representative - Switzerland

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

  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 22/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 22/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Bureau of the Assembly (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Standing Committee (from 28/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 21/01/2019 to 26/01/2020)
  • General Rapporteur on ending immigration detention of children: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 25/06/2018 to 25/06/2020)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 22/01/2018 to 28/09/2025)
  • Full Member: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 25/01/2016 to 28/09/2025)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 25/01/2024 to 28/09/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 25/04/2022 to 26/04/2022)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 30/03/2022 to 26/01/2024)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on the Republic of Moldova): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 05/10/2020 to 26/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 06/07/2020 to 28/09/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 28/09/2025)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 30/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 25/06/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas (from 24/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 24/01/2018 to 29/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 26/01/2016 to 21/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Charles JUILLARD (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/01/2020 to 25/06/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Sibel ARSLAN (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 26/06/2020 to 28/09/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Raphaël COMTE (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 25/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Céline AMAUDRUZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 25/01/2024 to 28/09/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Ada MARRA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 27/04/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Niklaus-Samuel GUGGER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 24/01/2022 to 24/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Ms Sibel ARSLAN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 25/01/2024 to 27/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Children (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Doris FIALA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 25/01/2017 to 23/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 06/07/2020 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Thomas MÜLLER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Thomas MÜLLER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 26/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Doris FIALA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Population (from 26/01/2016 to 25/01/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

27/06/2025 | 10:50:14 Thank you, Mister Chairman, Dear colleagues, I joined the Council of Europe in January 2016. That was almost 10 years ago, an honour for me. I was entering the temple of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights. I was going to take part, however modestly, in building a fairer world and a more united Europe. In 2015, we had the Syrian migration crisis, and a million refugees had just been accepted by Angela MERKEL in Germany. I thought the time had come for an open and... 26/06/2025 | 11:36:56 Thank you, Mr. Vice-President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues, It's often said that a democracy is judged by the way it treats the most humble, the most fragile, the most disadvantaged. And migrants undoubtedly fall into this category. In the 10 years I've spent on the Committee for Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, I've seen many difficult situations: the absolute misery of lives totally dependent on outside aid, the Calais Jungle, refugee camps in Lesbos, Bosnia-Herzegovina... 25/06/2025 | 19:22:54 Thank you, Mr Vice-Chairman. Thank you for a very lively debate. I expected no less. I'd like to start with three remarks. The first is that I am not the author of the motion for a resolution. It was tabled by a French parliamentarian. It was presented to the Social, Health and Sustainable Development Committee, accepted by the Bureau of the Assembly, and then returned to the Committee. Someone had to be designated. That's the first thing. I'm not the author of the other reports on the... 25/06/2025 | 18:30:20 The motion for a resolution accepted by the Bureau, which led to this report, had its origins in the massive demonstrations in France against pension reform in 2023. The protests were on an unprecedented scale, marked by violence, injuries and extreme tension. The reform was forced through, and with it a profound sense of injustice, incomprehension and disconnect between some citizens and those who govern them. But France is not the only country facing such situations. Across Europe, social... 24/06/2025 | 17:04:51 Thank you, Mr Vice-President. First of all, I'd like to express my support for both reports, and I'm going to speak about the report on the release of prisoners of war. I support it unreservedly. The fate of prisoners of war is never an easy question, but in the present case of Ukrainian prisoners of war, we can speak of absolute horror, with torture and disregard for the minimum international rules and standards laid down by the Geneva Conventions. Improving their conditions of detention...

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