03/03/2023 | 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, met in the Peace Palace of The Hague on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 March 2023. The Standing Committee meeting was preceded by a special event entitled...
03/03/2023 | Standing Committee
PACE has welcomed the high level of European solidarity shown in welcoming Ukrainians forced to flee Russia’s aggression – and has urged greater support for all refugees. Approving a resolution based on a report by Lord Alexander Dundee (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the Assembly’s Standing Committee...
03/03/2023 | Standing Committee
“Combatting violence against women should not be considered anymore as a feminist issue but as a human rights issue, and should be approached by the whole community, of whom men and boys should be a strong and vocal part,” said PACE President Tiny Kox, opening of a round table on “The role of men...
02/03/2023 | Standing Committee
"Seventy-five years ago, on the 9th of May 1948, the Congress of The Hague took place, the reason you are meeting here today. The Congress of The Hague is considered as the birthplace of the Council of Europe: the future and structure of the Council of Europe were discussed, and one year later...
02/03/2023 | Standing Committee
Seventy-five years ago, over 750 delegates from around Europe took part in the historic steps towards European unity at the Congress of Europe in The Hague. Against this background, a special event at the Peace Palace in The Hague today reflected upon the geopolitical balance in today’s...
02/03/2023 | Standing Committee
“I am proud and saddened to have been in Kyiv on 24 February this year to commemorate the start of the atrocities, to reiterate my group’s support – and I believe the support of this Assembly too – for Ukraine and our colleagues, and to remember the victims,” said Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE...
25/11/2022 | 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, met in Reykjavik on Friday 25 November 2022. After the opening of the meeting by PACE President Tiny Kox, Alþingi Speaker Birgir Ármannsson gave a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
PACE President Tiny Kox and Birgir Ármannsson, Speaker of the Alþingi, the Parliament of Iceland, opened today's meeting of the Standing Committee in Reykjavik, bringing together around 60 members of the Parliamentary Assembly. “We are gathered here shortly after the historic decision by the...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
"The atrocities uncovered in the liberated Ukrainian territories unfortunately underline once again how crucial the fight against impunity is," declared Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE), opening a current affairs debate in Reykjavik on escalation in the Russian Federation’s war of aggression...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Opening an event organised on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, marked every year on 25 November, PACE President Tiny Kox underlined that while important gains in the fight against gender-based violence have been made over decades of activism, “it is clear that...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee today welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ decision to hold a 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe in May 2023 and said that the organisation emerging from it should “better respond to citizens’ expectations in terms of openness, transparency...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Council of Europe member States should recommit to the values, principles and standards of the Organisation at the highest political level, PACE has said – pointing out that these are more relevant than ever when they are being “openly challenged”. In a resolution based on a report by Laima...