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Ms Carmen LEYTE (Spain, EPP/CD)

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In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 08/10/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 30/09/2019 Substitute - Spain
  • from 08/10/2018 to 29/09/2019 Representative - Spain

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 31/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 06/03/2020)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 21/01/2019 to 29/09/2019)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 21/01/2019 to 12/09/2019)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 08/10/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 08/10/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 08/10/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 27/01/2022 to 24/01/2024)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 15/04/2021 to 26/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (since 06/07/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 10/04/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Children (from 19/03/2019 to 27/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 19/03/2019 to 27/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr César SÁNCHEZ (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 30/09/2019 to 24/02/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Susana SUMELZO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 28/01/2020 to 05/07/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Jaime GONZÁLEZ TABOADA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (from 19/03/2019 to 09/04/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Jaime GONZÁLEZ TABOADA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 19/03/2019 to 09/04/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

08/04/2025 | 19:30:34 Thank you, Mister Pierre-Alain Fridez, for this report, which I think is exhaustive.  I would like to make a couple of comments. I know immigration very well because Galicians have always been a people who have emigrated, and Europe has been a territory that has hosted, applying asylum legislation. We have principles which we stand by, and that is what takes us to human rights and principles that we cannot give up on, despite the magnitude of the problem that we are facing.  I recognise the... 31/01/2025 | 10:50:39 Thank you very much indeed, President, and thank you to all of the speakers who took the floor for their contributions. I can assure you that I listened to you all of you very carefully indeed, and I think that everybody basically agreed that this is a report that needs to be put into practice. I do want to pick up on something that some speakers said. Not all are fully suppprtove of the report, but remind you that this pandemic upended the world. We were all very worried, many of us were... 31/01/2025 | 10:03:42 Thank you. Thank you, President. Dear colleagues, I am going to be speaking in the language of Cervantes – Spanish – my mother tongue.  It is a real honour for me, to share with you, this report on "Long Covid" and access to the right to health, which is an acute challenge for our health systems, as well as the lives of many people throughout Europe and the wider world.  Although many people think that the pandemic is now behind us, for at least 20 million people in Europe the impact of Covid... 01/10/2024 | 13:03:22 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) My congratulations to Mr. Stefan Schennach for his excellent report. In recent years, the society has witnessed the worrying increase of Fake News that cause a great wave of rumours and manipulations in various areas, such as conflicts like Russia's war against Ukraine or the COVID 19 pandemic and anti-vaccines. We live in a digital world that offers advantages but also presents challenges, since anyone can publish on social networks and... 27/06/2024 | 18:30:20 Thank you very much, President. What is unfolding in Gaza comes about as the result of a historical and complex conflict. But the most recent escalations started on 7 October, when more than 1 200 members of the terrorist group Hamas entered Israel and killed more than 1 000 innocent people in their own homes as well as at the Nova International Music Festival, which was being attended by thousands of young people from around the world. At that point in time, Hamas kidnapped and held hostage...

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