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Mr Christophe LACROIX (Belgium, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 22/01/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2018 Representative - Belgium

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 30/09/2024)
  • General Rapporteur on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/01/2022 to 18/03/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 24/06/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 01/03/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 22/01/2018 to 28/02/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (since 03/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 02/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 28/02/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 25/01/2018 to 21/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Alice BERNARD (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 30/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Karin BROUWERS (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Marie-Christine MARGHEM (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 02/10/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Youth and the Society of the Future (from 23/01/2024 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 26/03/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Philippe MUYTERS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 04/12/2020 to 02/03/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Els van HOOF (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 02/10/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Darya SAFAI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 02/10/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 01/10/2019 to 19/11/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Vincent VAN QUICKENBORNE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 28/02/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Sabien LAHAYE-BATTHEU (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Damien THIÉRY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 07/03/2019 to 29/09/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

18/04/2024 | 18:03:04 Thank you, Mister Chairman, for giving me the floor in such an important debate. I would indeed like to express my deep indignation, as do other colleagues, following the incessant destruction of infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since Saturday 7 October 2024 – the day Israel was attacked by the terrorist organization Hamas. I haven't heard anyone defend Hamas here so far, Mr Andrew PERCY, on the contrary, everyone condemns Hamas, but everyone also condemns - except you, at any rate - Israel's... 18/04/2024 | 15:58:35 Thank you, Mr President, for giving me the floor in this important debate. My congratulations go to Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR, who has done a magnificent job in record time. Because she asks the question: what use are we politicians? Do we let the machines, do we let technology, do we let opaque systems decide for us, decide for our citizens? No. We need to regulate artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is obviously an unprecedented source of progress, as long as it is based... 17/04/2024 | 19:11:40 Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. I'd like to thank all the colleagues who did me the honour of reading the report. I'd like to thank everyone except one person who didn't read the report, and who shared with us his nationalist fantasy, marked by virility and a very patriarchal, conjugal, white and heteronormative vision of gender relations. But what can you expect from someone who was vice-president of the former far-right Jobbik party in Hungary? "Even animals will be able to get married... 17/04/2024 | 18:01:02 Thank you very much, Madam President. Before I begin my presentation, I'd like to thank the Cecretariat, in particular Ms Sarah BURTON who was a member of the Secretariat, but who has now left to work in other departments, but also Ms Élodie FISCHER who is behind me and who has really masterfully taken over Sarah's role. I'd like to remind all the members of parliament, all the senators, all the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that, while the political impetus... 25/01/2024 | 19:03:14 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, My congratulations to you, Mister President, on your constant improvement in your knowledge of foreign languages. You've improved your accents over the years, and I congratulate you on that. But let's get back to the serious subject of press freedom and how to effectively guarantee the safety and security of journalists. As a trained historian, I'd like to take a step back 200 years. Two hundred years ago, the Belgian Constitution of 7...

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