22/11/2024 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in Luxembourg on Friday 29 November 2024. The meeting was opened by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 of the Assembly’s members, meets in Vilnius on Friday 24 May 2024. The meeting was preceded by a working breakfast of the Women@PACE group, with the participation of...
24/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Vilnius today, considers that the crises Europe has experienced – such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine – have highlighted the weakness of a narrow understanding of inclusive education, pointing out that children with complex needs have been...
24/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Vilnius today, called on member states to include cultural heritage preservation in their strategies designed to address climate change and its impact. The parliamentarians expressed their concern at the fact that “all forms of cultural heritage – tangible...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“In the early 90s, the people of Lithuania called this building the heart of Lithuania. It was here that thousands of Lithuanians gathered to protect our young democracy on the bloody night of 13 January 1991, forming a living human shield against those who sought to reverse our course to...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“In the Parliamentary Assembly, we look forward to working closely together with the authorities, and in particular with the Seimas, towards achieving the priorities of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“In this 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe, we may feel that European citizens have lost faith in the European values and in our democratic institutions – some are even turning to exclusion, hatred and populism,” Ingjerd Schou (Norway, EPP/CD) said today, opening of a current affairs...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“The Council of Europe is celebrating its 75th anniversary. We can be proud of its principled performance when faced with an unprecedented ethical choice. It is one of the very few organisations that expelled the aggressor state right after the start of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee, meeting in Vilnius, held a current affairs debate on “Recent challenges to democracy in Georgia”, focusing primarily on the controversial adoption by the Georgian Parliament of the law on transparency of foreign influence and the mass protests it has sparked. Opening...
24/05/2024 | Women@PACE
“With seven women and eight men as Ministers, your government has become the most gender-balanced cabinet in eastern Europe, with women holding key ministries, notably those of Justice, Finance, Economy, and the Interior,” said PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, welcoming...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
Despite international pledges to work towards ending child labour in all its forms, the latest figures show a “worsening global situation”, according to PACE’s Standing Committee – with some 79 million children worldwide, between 5 and 17, working in hazardous conditions. Approving a report by...
24/05/2024 | President
In the framework of the PACE Standing Committee meeting, held today in Vilnius, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, made the following statement: “At the start of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council...