19/11/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur has urged the Belgian Parliament to task a committee with looking into the implementation of judgments of the Strasbourg Court at national level.
13/11/2014 | President
"It is only through dialogue that solutions can be found and parliamentarians in particular have a responsibility to find solutions to problems together," Anne Brasseur said after meeting with Sergey Naryshkin.
07/11/2014 | President
The PACE Presidential Committee is to meet the Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin and members of the Russian delegation to the Assembly in Moscow on Thursday 13 November.
07/11/2014 | President
“The Berlin Wall was brought down not by the force of bulldozers and armies; it was torn down by the power of ideas,” said Anne Brasseur speaking on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
03/11/2014 | President
“Too many journalists have paid with their lives, sacrificed their safety or freedom to guarantee us access to information,” said Anne Brasseur, in a seminar on the protection of journalists.
31/10/2014 | President
I deplore the decision of the self-appointed authorities of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to hold ‘parliamentary and presidential elections’ on 2 November, said Anne Brasseur.
31/10/2014 | President
Non-implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the judgments of the Strasbourg Court “threatens the very survival of the Convention system”, warned Anne Brasseur today, opening a seminar in Madrid.
29/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur congratulated the Ukrainian people on holding early parliamentary elections which to a large extent comply with Ukraine’s democratic commitments and aspirations.
24/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur will be making an official visit to Spain on 30 and 31 October 2014. She will meet Pío Garcia Escudero, President of the Senate, and Jesús Maria Posada Moreno, President of the Congress of Deputies.
23/10/2014 | President
Parliamentary Assembly President Anne Brasseur has congratulated Jean-Claude Juncker and the members of the new European Commission on their election by the European Parliament on 22 October.
18/10/2014 | President
Speaking at the Conference on the European Social Charter “Europe restarts in Turin”, Anne Brasseur recalled that social rights must be considered as fundamental human rights, indivisible, interdependent and complementary.
14/10/2014 | President
Following yesterday’s final decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ilgar Mammadov, PACE President Anne Brasseur has called on the authorities to free him "without delay”.