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Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Switzerland, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Treasurer: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 27/01/2020
  • 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

  • since 24/01/2022 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: 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: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 25/06/2018 to 25/06/2020)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: 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) (since 22/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 25/01/2016)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (since 25/01/2024)
  • 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 (since 06/07/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 30/01/2020)
  • 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 (since 26/06/2020)
  • 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 (since 25/01/2024)
  • 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

11/04/2025 | 10:30:41 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I'm going to speak in French. I'm going to talk to you about the issue of declarations of conflict of interest. This is an essential element in strengthening the credibility of the Council of Europe. It's very important that each and every one of us, when dealing with a subject in a committee, with a report or an election observation, we are not dealing with our own country, so that we really do have a neutral attitude. In fact, what I've noticed over the years is... 10/04/2025 | 16:22:49 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Dear colleagues, First of all, I'd like to reiterate a few fundamentals. I'm in favour of the two-state solution. Israel has the right to exist and to have a state. The Palestinian people have the right to exist and to have a state. The attack perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 represents an unacceptable and deeply condemnable escalation; an escalation, because the conflict did not begin on 7 October. Finally, I call for the immediate release of all hostages... 08/04/2025 | 19:50:37 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Thank you for this debate. Rarely do we come across such a willingness on the part of speakers to say what's really on their minds. And indeed, we've heard it all. I'd like to say that I'm not surprised by this clash of values. A lot of things have been said by one side of the Chamber that are in contradiction with the values I hold, and certainly the majority of this Assembly; and, above all, they are in contradiction with certain values found in the Convention... 08/04/2025 | 18:49:36 Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear colleagues, All our countries have signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, a founding text that enriches us with shared values – human rights, the rule of law, democracy – but also commits us. And under Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights, collective expulsions of foreign nationals are formally prohibited. This obligation is also enshrined in European Union law, in accordance with Article 19 of the... 01/10/2024 | 18:49:44 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The Middle East has gone up in flames, and the word that comes to mind today is "apocalypse". The fire had been smoldering for decades, with regular but limited fires, against the backdrop of a geopolitical situation of unimaginable complexity, with hatreds passed down from generation to generation. On October 7, 2023, this hatred led to appalling crimes that we must firmly denounce. But today, we are witnessing the consequences of the law of retaliation applied...

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