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Mr Bob De BRABANDERE (Belgium, ECPA)

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Representative
Senator
Vlaams Belang

Sénat
BE - 1009 - Brussels
Belgium

Working language: English

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

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Bureau: European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates since 03/02/2025
  • Bureau: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 23/01/2023 to 03/02/2025
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 25/01/2021 to 22/01/2023
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 27/01/2020 to 24/01/2021
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 18/12/2019 to 26/01/2020
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 30/09/2019 to 17/12/2019

In the Assembly

  • since 30/09/2019 Representative - Belgium

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 30/09/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 19/03/2021 to 28/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 30/09/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 03/10/2024)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Julien RIBAUDO (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 30/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 19/03/2021 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Philippe MUYTERS (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 20/11/2020 to 02/03/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 19/11/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Kristien Van VAERENBERGH (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 03/10/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Christophe LACROIX (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (since 03/10/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Education and Democratic Values (from 23/01/2024 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 26/03/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Philippe MUYTERS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 04/12/2020 to 02/03/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Latifa GAHOUCHI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 28/01/2020 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Karin BROUWERS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 01/10/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 01/10/2019 to 19/11/2020)

Interventions

Last speeches

08/04/2025 | 20:20:10 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Colleagues, On Monday, during the preparation of the agenda for this plenary session, there was an attempt to remove this report from the schedule. That would have been a matter of common sense, but apparently, common sense hasn’t reached all groups in this parliament. Because anyone who reads this report can come to only one conclusion: Europe and its member states are once again portrayed as the villains in the fantasy story that the left... 10/10/2023 | 16:28:17 Dear colleagues, Let me get straight to the point. Who needed this report? There is no public debate about this topic and the facts show that the real dangers in our society are not coming from right-wing parties. Accepting this report will only demonstrate, once more, that this Assembly has completely lost all touch with reality in Europe and the real concerns of our citizens. This report is just a weak excuse for an attack on all parties that do not blindly agree with the left-liberal... 28/01/2021 | 10:49:02 Thank you. Distinguished colleagues, I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the European Convention on Human Rights, first drafted more than 70 years ago by the newly-formed Council of Europe, is definitely our handbook. In a manual all chapters are equally important, but personally I have to say that Article 10 is one that is very close to my heart and probably to the heart of many of you. That Article 10 is about freedom of expression: freedom of expression is what distinguishes a...

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