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Mr Pablo HISPÁN (Spain, EPP/CD)

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Representative
Deputy
Partido Popular

Congreso de los Diputados
ES - 28071 - Madrid
Spain

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2022 , 2021

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 25/06/2024
  • Treasurer: Group of the European People's Party from 24/04/2023 to 24/06/2024
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 21/06/2021 to 23/04/2023

In the Assembly

  • since 21/06/2021 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 Rules, Ethics and Immunities (since 12/04/2025)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Bureau of the Assembly (since 25/06/2024)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Standing Committee (since 25/06/2024)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Presidential Committee (since 25/06/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 25/06/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 25/06/2024)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 25/06/2024)
  • 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 25/06/2024 to 11/04/2025)
  • Full Member EPP/CD: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 26/01/2024)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 23/01/2024)
  • Alternate EPP/CD: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/04/2022 to 25/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 21/06/2021)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 21/06/2021 to 27/06/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

10/04/2025 | 12:48:21 Thank you, President Rousopoulos. Colleagues, the committee adopted the draft resolution unanimously last January. I would like to thank Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN for his excellent work as rapporteur on this important issue, which he started some years ago, back in 2020. He closely followed the resumed negotiations between the European Union and the Council of Europe member states, which have resulted in a draft accession agreement provisionally agreed in March 2023. The committee has held several... 09/04/2025 | 19:54:24 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Colleagues, a huge amount of work has gone into this report. My friend Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU has told us a poem. Perhaps another poem of a Greek poet, Constantine CAVAFY, could serve also in this work. Ithaca. It has been a long journey and I think he has enjoyed the journey, as CAVAFY states in the poem. In his journey, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU included fact-finding visits to two states, three hearings focused on particular countries, and a wide range... 09/04/2025 | 18:36:19 Thank you, President. [spoken in French] The Committee adopted the draft resolution by overwhelming majority and the draft recommendation unanimously. This report is the fourth report from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on Russia's full scale war of aggression on Ukraine and we need to ensure accountability. We were the first to propose the idea of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in April 2022, with a report by our former colleague, Mr Aleksander POCIEJ. We... 08/04/2025 | 10:11:09 Many thanks, Madam President. I shall be speaking the language of Cervantes. Today is a happy day because today is the end of a path. Presenting a report to the plenary is a long trajectory. A report that started almost two years ago with a member of the Group of the European People's Party, Ms Valentina MARTÍNEZ, and which went down successfully with our colleague Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA. Today is a happy day also, because the Council of Europe has a very strong instrument, a powerful... 29/01/2025 | 16:53:38 Thank you, President. I want to begin with congratulations – Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA, also the secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Ms Petra BAYR. The times were not easy. The political heat very high, the expectations extreme. And you follow the mandate of this institution: to promote democracy, human rights and always the rule of law. We are living in troubled times. The invasion of Ukraine is only one chapter in the struggle between the dark forces of...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions