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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) persons: 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 Véronique DURENNE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 28/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Marie-Christine MARGHEM (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 02/10/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • 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

10/04/2025 | 16:48:23 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, If I take the floor today, it's not just to evoke a conflict thousands of kilometers away, no: it's to remind you that behind every figure, every report, every word spoken in this House, there are human lives, there are children, there are families, human beings like you and me, whether Israeli or Palestinian. The abominable attacks of 7 October 2023 marked a tragic turning point. Since then, the people of Gaza have been living through an... 09/04/2025 | 18:23:13 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen, The aggression against Ukraine, a member of the great European family, is a flagrant violation of international law, a challenge to our democracies and a direct attack on the values that this Council of Europe has been defending against all odds for over seventy years. The Council of Europe, founded to defend democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, has a duty to say now and clearly: there can be no peace without justice. No forgetting... 09/04/2025 | 16:47:39 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İMAMOĞLU, goes beyond the scope of an internal affair and even raises an essential question: how can a member state of the Council of Europe, whose primary mission is to defend human rights and democracy, act in this way? Elected democratically, Ekrem İMAMOĞLU embodies alternation and the hope of unity in today's deeply divided Türkiye. His arrest has no clear basis. It is a political instrumentalisation... 08/04/2025 | 10:21:04 Thank you for your time. It works. Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, The Socialist, Democrat and Green Group wishes to express its deep concern at the resurgence of foreign interference in the internal affairs of our European democracies. This continues to be too often underestimated in its scale and seriousness, and this resolution rightly reminds us that any intentional, covert and manipulative interference orchestrated by foreign powers or their proxies constitutes a serious... 30/01/2025 | 18:28:37 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I'm going to speak in French. I'm going to confess something to you, a very guilty sin: I suddenly had the crazy urge to launch a petition on social networks to better regulate them, or even ban them. Do you think it's possible? Well, yes, it's possible. But who's going to read it? My friends on Instagram, Facebook, X? No, you won't. It's the algorithm that will decide, based on my ideas, which audience will be targeted. And so, since the algorithm will see that I...

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