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Mr Theo BOVENS (Netherlands, EPP/CD)

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Substitute
Senator
Christian Democratic Appeal

Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2023

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 09/10/2023

In the Assembly

  • since 09/10/2023 Substitute - Netherlands

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 09/10/2023 to 14/04/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 28/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Carla MOONEN (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 15/04/2024)

Interventions

Last speeches

28/01/2025 | 17:40:55 Mister President, dear colleagues, Yesterday His All Holiness Patriarch BATHOLOMEW gave an impressing speech, in which he called upon all faiths to invest in mutual understanding, dialogue and living peacefully together on this one planet. And he mentioned his warm co-operation with the Roman Catholic Church, and especially the Latin Patriarchate in the Holy Land, that looks after the Catholics in Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus. The presence of Christianity in the Middle East is and...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

23/04/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 06/02/2025 | Doc. 16115 | Motion for a resolution The deterioration of women's rights in Afghanistan: a need for global response 05/02/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 30/01/2025 | Doc. 16111 | Motion for a resolution Balancing innovation and regulation: ensuring new technologies serve democracy and human rights 08/10/2024 | Doc. 16061 | Motion for a resolution The use of artificial intelligence in public decision-making processes and its impact on human rights

Votes on adopted texts

30/01/2025 | Doc. 16105, vote on the draft text for resolution The urgent need for free and fair elections in Belarus 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for recommendation Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for resolution Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16104, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16087, vote on the draft text for recommendation The need for a renewed rules-based international order