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Ms Minna REIJONEN (Finland, ECPA)

Photo member

Representative
Member of Parliament
The Finns Party

Eduskunta
FI - 00102 - Helsinki
Finland

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates since 03/02/2025
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 05/10/2019 to 03/02/2025
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 24/06/2019 to 04/10/2019

In the Assembly

  • since 24/06/2019 Representative - Finland

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 24/06/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (since 25/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (since 13/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 13/09/2019 to 27/01/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

09/04/2025 | 10:47:19 Mister President, dear colleagues, I would like to thank Mr Frank SCHWABE for this timely and important report. At a time when our European values of the rule of law and democracy are being questioned, we need to step up our efforts in defending what we stand for. Corruption is a disease that kills democracy. The Council of Europe and this Assembly have done a lot of work to improve our measures to counter corruption, but research shows that we are far from being free from corruption in our... 19/04/2024 | 11:09:52 Thank you, Mister President, Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur for this important report on protecting children against online violence. The Internet is both good and bad at the same time. Today children use mobile phones a lot. Even very young children can use the internet and mobile phones. They really carry around disturbing content, bullying, and violence in their pockets. But are mobile phones really needed at school? I think, no. Supervision is needed and the... 24/06/2022 | 10:46:27 Thank you. I come from Finland. I have previously worked as a pharmacist, and worked in a pharmacy. Pharmacy and healthcare staff have a lot to do with vaccines. Vaccinations according to the vaccination programme are free of charge in Finland. Vaccinations are given at health care facilities. In addition, you can buy vaccines for tourism, for example, from a pharmacy. It is important that vaccines and the right up-to-date information on vaccines are available. There were also nasty phenomena... 15/03/2022 | 18:22:20 Thank you. In autumn, I visited Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, when the city was awarded the European Prize by the Council of Europe, by us. That beautiful and progressive city and its friendly people made a big impression on me. Back then, hardly anyone could imagine what would happen in six months. Not in Europe at least. War in Europe is a terrible thing. There are now domestic refugees from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Mariupol' and many other places in Khmelnitsky. For many refugees, Khmelnitsky is a...

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