The June part-session was the last one for Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), long-lasting member of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons. He was the committee’s chair in 2020 – 2021, during the Covid pandemic. Mr Fridez’ mandate will end on 30 September 2025.

For the committee, he was the rapporteur of the following reports:

Putting an end to collective expulsions of aliens

The theme of migration and asylum in election campaigns and its consequences on the reception of migrants and their rights

Pushbacks on land and sea: illegal measures of migration management

Humanitarian consequences and internal and external migration in connection with the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

Climate and migration

Humanitarian consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for migrants and refugees

Development co-operation: a tool for preventing migration crises

Mr Fridez was also General Rapporteur for the Parliamentary campaign End Immigration Detention of Children (2018–2019).