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Mr Christophe LACROIX (Belgium, SOC)

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Representative
Deputy
PS

Chambre des représentants
BE - 1008 - Brussels
Belgium

Working language: French

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Latest news

24/06/2026 - Session PACE denounces silencing of critical voices in Azerbaijan 29/05/2026 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee denounces silencing of critical voices in Azerbaijan 17/04/2026 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteur strongly condemns harsh final sentences against journalists in Azerbaijan 12/09/2025 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Convictions of Abzas Media journalists ‘part of a continuing pattern of pressure against independent media in Azerbaijan’ says PACE rapporteur 17/04/2024 - Session PACE urges member States to protect the freedom of expression and assembly of LGBTI people in Europe

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 30/06/2026
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 26/01/2026 to 29/06/2026
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 22/01/2018 to 25/01/2026

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2018 Representative - Belgium

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

  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 30/09/2024)
  • General Rapporteur on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/01/2022 to 18/03/2024)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 24/06/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 01/03/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 22/01/2018 to 28/02/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 03/10/2024 to 27/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 02/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 28/02/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 25/01/2018 to 21/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Alice BERNARD (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 30/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Karin BROUWERS (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Véronique DURENNE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 28/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Marie-Christine MARGHEM (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 02/10/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Youth and the Society of the Future (from 23/01/2024 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 26/03/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Philippe MUYTERS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 04/12/2020 to 02/03/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Els van HOOF (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 02/10/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Darya SAFAI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 02/10/2019 to 29/09/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Andries GRYFFROY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 01/10/2019 to 19/11/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Vincent VAN QUICKENBORNE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 28/02/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Sabien LAHAYE-BATTHEU (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Damien THIÉRY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 07/03/2019 to 29/09/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

01/10/2026 | 17:31:14 Madam Chair, Just imagine! Imagine that someone came to arrest you. Not for theft. Not for violence. But for defending the right to love whoever you choose. The right to be who you are. This is not a nightmare. This is Türkiye. Today. A member state of the Council of Europe. Since 12 September, dozens of activists, community leaders and journalists have been arrested. The name of the operation? “My family is safe”. What a cruel irony. In the name of the family, other families are being torn... 01/10/2026 | 16:29:56 Thank you, Mr President. A question. Will artificial intelligence (AI) take your job away from you? Personally, I think you’re being told two different stories. The first: robots are coming and millions of jobs will disappear. The second: AI will sort everything out, as if by magic. I believe both are wrong. Look at history. The steam engine, electricity, computing… None of them has made human labour disappear. All of them have profoundly transformed it. But whenever the benefits of progress... 24/06/2026 | 19:12:34 Thank you, Mister President, Dear colleagues, Allow me first of all to thank the rapporteurs for the high standard of their work. Access to sufficient, healthy and sustainable food is not a variable to be adjusted; rather, it is a fundamental right. In particular, it requires us to reaffirm the central role of parliaments in regulating our food systems. Food sovereignty cannot exist without parliamentary sovereignty. It is our parliaments that must set the rules of the game, rather than the... 24/06/2026 | 17:05:17 Thank you, Mr President. Our colleague Mr Pablo HISPÁN, whom I would like to thank, drew on Cicero’s ‘hecatylinaire’ to emphasise just how much we are now calling on the Azerbaijani regime to finally respond to the criticism and to stop trying our patience. For my part, I shall begin with a definition of dictatorship by Hannah ARENDT. “Dictatorship,” said Hannah ARENDT in the aftermath of the Second World War, “is exercised not only in the political sphere, but in all spheres, including the... 24/06/2026 | 16:21:19 Thank you very much, Mister President. My dear colleagues, we are holding this debate against a difficult backdrop. Following the non-ratification of the Azerbaijani delegation in 2024, Azerbaijan chose not to submit its delegation’s credentials for two consecutive years: 2025 and 2026. Many members of this Assembly, myself included, have been declared persona non grata in that country. Nevertheless, our responsibility, the responsibility of this Assembly, does not disappear when dialogue...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

01/06/2026 | Doc. 16414 | Report Silencing critical voices in Azerbaijan 27/03/2024 | Doc. 15953 | Report Freedom of expression and assembly of LGBTI people in Europe 10/01/2022 | Doc. 15429 | Report Alleged violations of the rights of LGBTI people in the Southern Caucasus 29/09/2020 | Doc. 15151 | Report Preventing discrimination caused by the use of artificial intelligence

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

30/09/2026 | Doc. 16501 | Written declaration State glorification of convicted war criminals: the funeral of Ratko Mladić 29/09/2026 | Doc. 16495 | Motion for a resolution The cost-of-living crisis in Europe: protecting social rights and safeguarding social cohesion 28/09/2026 | Doc. 16490 | Motion for a resolution Transboundary waste and environmental crime: strengthening prevention, traceability and accountability 21/09/2026 | Doc. 16485 | Motion for a resolution Combating school segregation and the intergenerational transmission of poverty 01/09/2026 | Doc. 16466 | Motion for a resolution Protecting Europe’s cultural diversity and sovereignty by promoting access to European cinematographic and audiovisual works

Votes on adopted texts

02/10/2026 | Doc. 16482, vote on the draft text for resolution Restructuring and streamlining the Rules of Procedure: modalities relating to the external and interparliamentary relations of the Assembly 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16493, vote on the draft text for resolution Europe, the fastest-warming continent: accelerating climate action with young people 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16493, vote on the draft text for recommendation Europe, the fastest-warming continent: accelerating climate action with young people 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16472, vote on the draft text for resolution The role of the OECD in evaluating the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16499, vote on the draft text for resolution Repression and targeted attacks on LGBTI persons and defenders in Türkiye