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Mr Claude KERN (France, ALDE)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 22/01/2018
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 24/11/2017 to 21/01/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 23/11/2018 Representative - France
  • from 24/11/2017 to 22/11/2018 Substitute - France

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

  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 23/11/2018)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 29/06/2018)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 25/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 03/10/2019 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on Georgia): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 24/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 25/01/2018 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Bruno STUDER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 10/10/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Bernard FOURNIER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 24/11/2017 to 09/10/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Frédéric REISS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 29/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Frédéric REISS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2018 to 02/10/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

20/06/2023 | 16:57:50 Thank you, Madam President. First of all, I would like to congratulate our colleague Mr Paul GALLES on his excellent report, which highlights the extent to which democracy and human rights are being trampled underfoot in Belarus. Following the presidential election in August 2020, which he lost, Mr Aleksandr Lukashenko used force to keep power and severely repressed the demonstrations that followed, with mass arrests, torture and enforced disappearances. Faced with this repression, many... 27/04/2023 | 18:08:27 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, The Russian aggression against Ukraine is deeply destabilising the Republic of Moldova. Mr Vladimir Putin clearly wants to keep the states surrounding his country under Russian domination. When he is not waging open war, he is trying to weaken the regimes in place in these republics in order to install a government that is favourable to him. This is the case in the Republic of Moldova, as well as in Georgia, as I was able to see when I visited there... 27/04/2023 | 16:56:29 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, I thank our colleague Mr Paulo PISCO for this report which calls for a clear response against the deportations and forced transfers of children and other Ukrainian civilians to the Russian Federation or temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. I myself was the rapporteur of a resolution on this subject adopted by the French Senate, at the initiative of our colleague Mr André GATTOLIN. I would like to remind you that children are particularly... 25/04/2023 | 19:29:26 Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate our colleague Ms Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN for the quality of this report, which aims to boost the status of partner for democracy. I am delighted that our Assembly is taking up this relationship format, which contributes to the dissemination of the values we share and defend. Today, it is clear that not all partners are progressing at the same pace and that they do not show the same interest in our work. From... 27/01/2023 | 11:31:47 Thank you, Mister President. Dear Colleagues, I would like to start by thanking our colleague Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK for the presentation of this report by Ms Marta GRANDE, which reminds us of the role of universities and research institutes in promoting the development of democracy and the rule of law. At the level of the European Union, initiatives have been undertaken to create some forty European university networks, whose aim is to improve "the quality, inclusion, digitisation and...

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