25/06/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee calls for the immediate release of the three Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel,who were abducted whilst hitchhiking in Area C of the West Bank on 12 June.
24/06/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The rise in populist parties cannot be put down to rejection of Europe. Financial insecurity, mass unemployment, economic paralysis, stagnant growth and global financial disorder are the real causes of the public concern.
24/06/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee, following a proposal by its Chairperson Theodora Bakoyannis held a Conference on "Freedom of religion or belief in the Middle East and the Southern Mediterranean" in Athens on 7 May.
15/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Belarus’s efforts to move closer to the PACE will remain vain and fruitless as long as the death penalty is imposed on any Belarusian citizen,” two rapporteurs said, speaking following the execution of Hryhoriy Yuzepchuk.
13/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Underlining the need to continue negotiations with a view to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the Western Sahara conflict, the committee called on all parties to show realism and a spirit of compromise.
07/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
A specific framework of co-operation between the CoE and its partners in the near Muslim world is needed. PACE, through the tool of ‘partnership for democracy’, has a special role to play in this regard.
07/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Parliamentary Assembly constitutes an ideal forum for the debate on the future political form of the EU and more specifically the challenges of opting for a federal Europe, said the Political Affairs Committee.
02/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Committee on Political Affairs will organise in Athens a conference on “Freedom of religion or belief in the Middle East and the Southern Mediterranean: the situation and safety of Christian communities”.
02/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The parliamentary contribution to solving the Western Sahara conflict, and facing the challenges of a federal Europe, on the agenda of the next meeting of the committe in Athens.
10/04/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Two committees have expressed their deep concern over the death sentences that were handed down in Egypt against more than five hundred supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
10/04/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy once again draws the attention of the international community to the situation of Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty (Iraq).
28/03/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“There is a contradiction between applying for closer relations with the Council of Europe and at the same time preparing legislation on the prohibition of so-called homosexual propaganda,” according to two rapporteurs.