08/12/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
How can copyright be protected, particularly in electronic communications, while every citizen must retain the right to free access to information, including those provided by digital libraries? This question will be raised at a hearing on “Copyright in Europe”, organised on Tuesday 9 December 2008 in Paris.
05/12/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Sub-Committee on Cultural Heritage is holding a conference on "rescue archaeology" - the study and preservation of significant elements of archaeological heritage under threat from development work – in Paris on 8 December. Archaeologists, developers, public authority managers, NGOs and representatives of European and international institutions will debate the topic, and concrete examples will be considered in the form of case studies. In particular, the conference will help to identify the roles of the different interested parties as well as principles of good practice.
24/10/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Andrew McIntosh (United Kingdom, SOC), PACE rapporteur on media freedom and Chair of the Sub-Committee on the Media, made the following statement today: "I am deeply shocked by the car bomb attack killing Ivo Pukanic, the owner of the Croatian weekly newspaper Nacional, and his marketing director Niko Franjic in Zagreb yesterday evening. Murdering a journalist who has exposed organised crime, corruption and human rights violations is an attack on the democratic foundation of a state. My sympathy goes to the families of the two men."
02/09/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Andrew McIntosh (United Kingdom, SOC), rapporteur on media freedom and Chair of the Sub-Committee on the Media of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), has strongly deplored the death of the prominent opposition journalist Magomed Yevloyev on 31 August 2008 in Nazran, the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia in the northern Caucasus of the Russian Federation.
22/05/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has declared its opposition to a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games and said it is worried at “the continuing over-politicisation” of the Games.
02/05/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Andrew McIntosh (United Kingdom, SOC), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur on media freedom, reminded European governments and parliaments on the eve of Press Freedom Day to do more for the respect of freedom of expression and information in the media. “The expression of critical opinions is an essential condition of democracy. We therefore need more lively political debates in the media. Media legislation must respect this democratic freedom”, he said.
29/04/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE rapporteur on media freedom, Andrew McIntosh (United Kingdom, SOC), today expressed concern at a legislative initiative adopted last Friday by the Russian State Duma. “This revision of the Russian media law will allow courts to impose more severe criminal sanctions against media which report negatively on high state officials. Media outlets could even be closed. The current media law in Russia is already very severe in penalising defamation of the President, Prime Minister and other senior state officials. An increase in penalties would risk violating the requirement of proportionality under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights," he said.
17/04/2008 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Rapporteur on the media Andrew McIntosh (United Kingdom, SOC) today called on the Belarus authorities to investigate police brutality against journalists reporting on a peaceful demonstration in Minsk on 25 March. In a statement Lord McIntosh - who also chairs PACE's Sub-committee on the Media - gave his support to the “constructive criticism” of a new draft law on information currently being discussed in the Belarus Parliament, submitted by the Belarusian Association of Journalists. A representative of the association briefed the sub-committee on the media situation in the country at a public hearing yesterday.
20/12/2007 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Viewing the 1,000-square-metre 19th century “Bergisel Panorama” in the rotunda built for it in central Innsbruck is an important part of the experience, according to PACE's general rapporteur on cultural heritage. Eddie O’Hara (United Kingdom, SOC) was invited to look into the question following concerns expressed over the possible relocation of the panorama, which commemorates the third battle in 1809 between Tyrolean and united Napoleonic forces.
11/12/2007 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Political leaders are responsible for ensuring that culture is handed down to future generations at school. It is therefore essential to promote the teaching of major examples of European literature in senior secondary schools and all study courses” said Jacques Legendre (France, EPP/CD), Chair of the PACE Committee on Culture, Science and Education, at the opening of a colloquy on the teaching of European literature being held by the Committee at the French Senate.
10/12/2007 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Is there such a thing as a “European” literature which can be taught to students? How is this affected by the politics of translation and distribution? Could there be a “common textbook” for young Europeans on their shared literary heritage?
01/10/2007 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
What is the added value of e-learning? How are the citizens of the Council of Europe member states to be guaranteed access to it? These questions will be central to the first electronic conference which PACE Committee on Culture, Science and Education is to organise on 1 October in Strasbourg .