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Mr Julian PAHLKE (Germany, SOC)

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In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 24/01/2022

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Representative - Germany

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 24/01/2022 to 27/01/2025)

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Last speeches

02/10/2024 | 10:39:14 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, thank you for coming here, Julian. It's a pleasure and a privilege having you here in this Parliamentary Assembly that is a democratic assembly for the protection of human rights. And dear Sunna, thank you for looking into this matter with diligence, patience, and a clear view on what is important on this topic. Mr Julian ASSANGE is a journalist, I would say, of a different kind. He's not writing catchy articles, selecting headlines, but he was publishing... 01/10/2024 | 16:56:23 Thank you, Mister Chair. Madam Chair. Please excuse me and thank you to everyone who spoke on both reports, for your kind words, for your acknowledgement, and for the decency you showed with regards to both topics, to people smuggling and to people that went missing. But during the debate, I was also accused, obviously, for what I've done before I became a member of parliament, which was actually the reason why I ran and that was that I rescued people in the Mediterranean. I was accused of... 01/10/2024 | 15:53:14 Dear Mister Chair, dear colleagues, Before my time as a parliamentarian, I spent more than four years on rescue vessels in the central Mediterranean. I worked tirelessly with many others to prevent people from drowning in the Mediterranean. We had dramatic rescues where everyone survived and was brought to safety. And we had those rescues where people drowned also in front of my own eyes, simply because we weren't enough rescuers in the area on this day. And I will never forget the day when... 22/06/2022 | 18:24:36 Dear Mister President, Dear Pierre-Alain, Thank you so much for your excellent report. I'm glad that we're finally having chance to focus on the important details of protection for people on the move, especially after the last years of injustice against those fleeing. The injustice on the Mediterranean, the people drowning; the injustice on the Aegean Islands; and, of course, the injustice of the people drowning on the route towards the Canary Islands. The grade of protection is unique within...

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