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Mr Norbert KLEINWÄCHTER (Germany, ECPA)

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Representative
Deputy
AfD

Deutscher Bundestag
DE - 11011 - Berlin
Germany

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates since 03/02/2025
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 18/12/2019 to 03/02/2025
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 22/01/2018 to 17/12/2019

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2018 Representative - Germany

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

  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 30/09/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 27/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 22/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 25/01/2018 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 25/01/2018 to 21/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Konstantin KUHLE (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 22/01/2018 to 23/01/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Christian PETRY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Gyde JENSEN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 23/01/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Axel SCHÄFER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 25/01/2018 to 12/04/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Gyde JENSEN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 24/01/2021)

Interventions

Last speeches

11/04/2025 | 10:02:09 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, After seven years, this is probably my last speech in this Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, this truly special body. I would like to conclude by saying a few words about what we actually come together here four times a year to do and what, in my view, has become increasingly worse over the last seven years. We are the body whose central task is to talk, discuss and indeed argue about human rights, the rule of law and... 10/04/2025 | 17:21:37 Honourable Chair, dear colleagues, dear Mister rapporteur, it is a notable detail that Emmanuel MACRON, the President of France, suggested the creation of the European Political Community (EPC) at the final session of the Conference on the Future of Europe. That conference, which was to serve to integrate the European Union (EU) even further, to hand more power to EU bureaucrats and to take away democracy from citizens, led to the insight that this concept does not work because the European... 01/10/2024 | 16:16:17 Thank you Mister President, dear colleagues, Let's cut the sweet talk. Migrants going missing or dying in the sea are the cruel side of mass migration. Last year alone, amid the promise of a life in luxury, 1.14 million people sought asylum in the EU, most of who were not actual refugees. It always works according to the same process. There is a community at home that collects money. They send a man, the man pays a smuggler, the smuggler places the man in a boat, the man throws away the... 01/10/2024 | 11:05:00 Thank you very much, Mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, Many of you were at the hearing with Mr Julian ASSANGE earlier. And he said something very interesting. He said that he had virtually disappeared from the surface for 14 years. And when he came back now, freedom of expression and freedom of the press have become even worse than they were then. That must give us pause for thought. At a time when there are more channels to say something than ever before, people feel they can say less... 25/06/2024 | 18:20:14 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, Europe, this Organisation, our nations will only have a democratic future if we stick to the rule of law and if international conventions aren't used against the people as it's often the case with asylum and refugee procedures. This Report demands human rights compliant asylum procedures. What it actually means is a borderless open door policy, free access to any territory for anyone, and procedures taking many, many, many years to make sure they...

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