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Ms Laura CASTEL (Spain, UEL)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Co-Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left since 27/01/2025
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left from 29/04/2022 to 26/01/2025
  • Member: Group of the Unified European Left from 28/06/2021 to 28/04/2022
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 06/03/2020 to 27/06/2021

In the Assembly

  • since 06/03/2020 Representative - Spain

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

  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation (since 21/01/2026)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 21/01/2026)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 23/06/2025)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities (from 12/04/2025 to 22/06/2025)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2025)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 27/01/2025 to 11/04/2025)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 15/04/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 25/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 06/03/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 26/01/2021 to 27/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr José María SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 31/05/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Iván ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 06/03/2020 to 23/05/2022)

Interventions

Last speeches

25/06/2026 | 18:38:41 Well, first of all, thank you. Thank you for the broadest support, for all your comments. Thanks also for the valuable discussions that we have done in the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination throughout these two years and all these very good discussions. Thanks also to the priceless co-operation with the Venice Commission and also thank you to the visit in the United Kingdom, because the United Kingdom legislation and policies has been a source of inspiration. Dear colleagues... 25/06/2026 | 17:44:18 Dear colleagues, in no other place or on no other platforms are women more dehumanised or objectified than in violent pornography. That is why the objective of this report is not to debate pornography, but to investigate the direct impact of extreme and degrading content on the dignity and safety of women and girls. We are witnessing that digital content is increasingly pervasive, aggressive and violent. The spread of content depicting sexual violence to an indiscriminate community of users... 25/06/2026 | 16:44:32 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, let me congratulate the rapporteur for this important work, because indeed, transnational repression takes various forms, depending on circumstances and time. For example, silencing dissidents abroad by threatening them, abducting them or abusing extradition requests. Yet some governments, Türkiye foremost among them, have systematically applied every sort of exploitation of international law enforcement tools, in addition to abducting dozens of people... 24/06/2026 | 17:33:58 Thank you, Chair. Let me first thank the co-rapporteurs for their hard work. Monitoring developments in our member state, Georgia, remains very much needed. For too many years, politics has been – and still is – poisoned. Instead of working hard on all parts of Georgian politics, to the benefit of a positive development of a vibrant democracy, a strong rule of law structure and fundamental respect for human rights, politicians are fighting each other for the wrong reasons. A strong political... 22/06/2026 | 17:29:45 Thank you, Chair, Just a few remarks. Important issues have been raised during this debate. Some of them are very important, for example, the implementation of judges by our colleague Ms Bisera KOSTADINOVSKA-STOJCHEVSKA but also the challenge to peace and the normalisation of the violation of international law or the policies of Mr Donald TRUMP against Greenland and this interference in the territorial integrity and how the challenges of democracy has been posed by the housing crisis and the...

Activities