22/01/2013 | President
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, has stressed that, today more than ever, Franco-German reconciliation offers a message of encouragement wherever reconciliation still seems premature, a message of perseverance in the task of European integration, but also a message of vigilance in the face of rising Euro-scepticism and populism.
11/01/2013 | President
PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, has expressed his consternation following the killing of three Kurdish activists in Paris. “I am appalled by the execution of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez. This shocking news comes just as the Turkish authorities have launched fresh talks with Abdullah Öcalan...”, he stated.
11/01/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon, PACE President, will make an official visit to Greece on 15-16 January 2013. In this context, he will hold talks in Athens with the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. On the same occasion, he will join members of the PACE Ad hoc Sub-Committee on the large-scale arrival of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees on Europe's southern shores, for part of their information visit to the country.
01/01/2013 | President
On this first day of the New Year, I would like to wish happiness, prosperity, health and peace to the 800 million Europeans living in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, as well as to the citizens of the Observer states and to our Partners for Democracy. I also address my best wishes to the 636 MPs who are members of our Assembly, to the members of the Committee of Ministers, to our Secretary General and to the Deputy Secretary General, to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, as well as to all the officials and staff working for different Council of Europe bodies.
29/12/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning expressed his sadness and consternation following the death of the young student who was gang-raped in a bus in New Delhi. "I would like, once again, to condemn this cowardly and ignoble act. At the same time, I would like to express my deepest sympathies to the family and to the relatives of the young woman," declared the PACE President.
23/12/2012 | President
"I am relieved that we finally get out of this intolerable situation of status quo and stagnation hanging over the Baumettes prison in Marseille. To think that, on the eve of the year 2013, we have to take emergency measures by carrying out rodent and insect controls in a prison in France to improve the living conditions of detainees offends me deeply," declared this morning PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon.
20/12/2012 | President
During his working visit to the Republic of Moldova from 17 to 20 December and in his address to its parliament, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon offered the services of the Parliamentary Assembly as a platform for relaunching dialogue between the representatives of the Moldovan Parliament and the Transnistrian Supreme Soviet.
15/12/2012 | President
"I am profoundly shocked by this despicable act, which took the lives of so many children. There can be no justification for such a cowardly act," declared Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the PACE.
13/12/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning expressed his profound sadness at the death of Lluís Maria de Puig, who presided over the Parliamentary Assembly from 2008 to 2010 and was a member of it for twenty-three years.
13/12/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has welcomed today’s judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of el-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.
12/12/2012 | President
At the end of their meeting in Strasbourg today, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon and Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, stressed that both PACE and the EU benefited from informal meetings such as the one today and agreed to discuss co-operation in specific fields on a more regular basis.
07/12/2012 | President
At the end of his official visit to Morocco, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon welcomed the exemplary co-operation between the Moroccan Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly. He encouraged co-operation on an equal footing to the mutual benefit of both partners.