02/09/2010 President | European Convention on Human Rights
At a joint meeting of the PACE Presidential Committee, led by its President Mevlüt Cavusoglu, and the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament in Brussels today, discussions focused on the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights and in particular the right of the European Parliament to appoint and send a certain number of representatives to PACE when the latter elects judges to the European Court of Human Rights.
In this context, participants also stressed the importance of having an informal body in order to coordinate information sharing between the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly.