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Mr Paul GALLES (Luxembourg, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 25/11/2021

In the Assembly

  • since 25/11/2021 Substitute - Luxembourg

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 25/11/2021)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (since 25/03/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (since 26/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (since 27/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 24/11/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Stéphanie WEYDERT (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 23/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Max HENGEL (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Françoise HETTO-GAASCH (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 25/11/2021 to 23/01/2022)

Interventions

Last speeches

25/01/2024 | 17:02:32 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. It‘s my pleasure and honour to speak on this very important report on behalf of our Group of the European People's Party and with the support of our Luxembourgish delegation, which had the opportunity to develop a strong relationship with the democratic forces of Belarus in the last months. We want to congratulate Mr Kimmo KILJUNEN for his very clear and inspiring report. Personally, I consider him as an ally and colleague in the fight for a free and... 20/06/2023 | 17:04:48 Thank you very much for the words and thanks to all of you for your interventions and all your support. I remember very well the seven months – I think it was seven months – of manifestations in Belarus in 2020 before and after the elections. It was our hope and we had all emotions hoping that Belarus would be free. We saw this longing for the freedom of the people we saw manifesting and demonstrating. We saw they were starving for a new beginning in this beautiful country. During my report... 20/06/2023 | 15:44:28 Mister Chairman, ladies and gentlemen Dear colleagues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Dear Mrs Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA and all the friends who have joined us from Belarus, committed to a free Belarus, I was honoured to be appointed rapporteur for the report "Addressing the specific challenges faced by Belarusians in exile" and to have my report unanimously adopted by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons on 11 May. I stand before you now to ask...

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