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Mr Norbert KLEINWÄCHTER (Germany, EC/DA)

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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 Group and Democratic Alliance since 18/12/2019
  • 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) (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

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... 18/04/2024 | 11:03:02 Thanks. Should the right to a healthy environment be recognised in law as an autonomous human right? I'm firmly convinced it should not be. The reasoning behind it is already very flawed. The first paragraph of the report says that climate change is the greatest existential emergency for humankind and that this emergency is mainly due to the lack of long-lasting structural action. Wait a minute. The state of emergency is normally marked by the fact that governments lift or wave human rights... 20/06/2023 | 19:29:20 Thank you very much, Mr President, Dear colleagues, the One Health Global Health policy aims to destroy freedom, fundamental rights and national sovereignty. And now let me really stop with the narrative that is constantly wafting through society and also through this room and through the report, where you claim that there is climate change, which would lead to more and more animal-human interaction, which was also the case with COVID-19, and therefore we need a multilateral effort, we need... 25/04/2023 | 16:15:58 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, the title of our debate is "Road To Reykjavík" and it must be clear that the Reykjavík Summit cannot only be a reaction to the war in Ukraine, it must especially make sure that the Council of Europe works better. And for our group, the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance, it's clear that the focus must be on the core values that we stand for: human rights, democracy and the rule of law. And they have been severely compromised... 24/01/2023 | 19:21:42 Thank you very much, Mister President, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are debating the fact that there is to be a summit and also a reform of the Council of Europe. We have already seen the problem with the debate: for two hours, very, very many speakers have referred to Ukraine and rightly so. But that is not the only thing that this reform of the Council of Europe had to strive for. The Council of Europe survived the Berlin Wall, thank God, and it will survive this war, thank God. But it will...

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