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”.
06/10/2014 | President
Speaking at a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the European Pharmacopoeia, Anne Brasseur called it a Council of Europe “success story”. The positive impact on public health activities is undeniable, she said.
03/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur today decisively condemned the violations of the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine. She expressed her indignation that despite the ceasefire and numerous calls to respect it, fighting continued.
03/10/2014 | President
The Assembly stood for a minute of silence today in memory of the lives lost in the Mediterranean, exactly one year to the day after 368 Eritrean refugees and migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
25/09/2014 | President
Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to Azerbaijan, PACE President, Anne Brasseur, has called for a broad dialogue between the authorities, political actors and civil society.
19/09/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur, on a working visit to Azerbaijan from 22 to 24 September 2014, met the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice.
19/09/2014 | President
“The Istanbul Convention has a soul. It is a blueprint for future society in which violence against women will no longer be justified (...) It will be prevented, fought, punished and finally rejected by everyone”, Anne Brasseur said.
18/09/2014 | President
“Sport must not be above the law,” stressed Anne Brasseur, speaking in Macolin at the opening of the Conference of European Ministers of Sport, organised by the Council of Europe and the Swiss Federal Office of Sport.