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Mr Knut ABRAHAM (Germany, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 29/01/2026
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 24/01/2022 to 28/01/2026

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Representative - Germany

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

  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 23/06/2025)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (since 22/06/2025)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (since 22/06/2025)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/06/2025 to 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Gabriela HEINRICH (Full Member): Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Norbert KLEINWÄCHTER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2022 to 22/06/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

29/09/2026 | 10:58:39 Thank you very much, Madam President. Dear colleagues, Let me draw together aspects that I've heard in this debate. First, and again, this Assembly matters. It's where governments are held to account in public, where we name violations and where we honour those who defend our values at great risk. Secondly, we do not lack instruments. We have the Convention, the court monitoring and the Statute. What we too often lack is the will to implement them. A judgment that is not implemented is a... 29/09/2026 | 10:10:57 Madam President. Thank you very much, Secretary General. Dear colleagues, We are living through dangerous times. As we speak here in Strasbourg, 2 000 Ukrainians – Europeans – amongst them children, are trapped in the town of Oleshky in Russian-occupied Ukraine. They have had no food delivered since May. The occupiers will not let them leave. Three years ago, this Assembly recognised the Holodomor, Stalin's famine in Ukraine, as genocide. Ninety-three years later, Ukrainians are again starved... 16/04/2024 | 18:12:07 Mister Chairman, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, we have an excellent report here by Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS. I think we should all be very grateful to you. This is very impressive work you have done. Dear colleagues, we had eminent lawyers, rapporteurs from different countries, some who recognised Kosovo and some who didn't, different political groups and different committees. All arrived at the same conclusion, with strong support and based on facts, that Kosovo...

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