12/12/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee has adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2025 and summarising its assessments concerning the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as those subject this year to the periodic review of...
10/12/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting in Paris on 9 December, has proposed “to close the post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia”. Adopting a report by Sibel Arslan (Switzerland, SOC) and Joseph O'Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), the committee welcomed the measures taken by the authorities to reform...
28/11/2025 | Monitoring
“The respect of judicial decisions is a key principle in any democracy. Political polarisation should not stand in the way of respect for the rule of law, the separation of powers and a culture of constructive institutional dialogue,” said Elvira Kovács (Serbia, EPP/CD) and Valentina Grippo...
19/11/2025 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Georgia from 10 to 12 November 2025, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Cudic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), urged the authorities to fully implement the...
10/11/2025 | Monitoring
Elvira Kovács (Serbia, EPP/CD) and Valentina Grippo (Italy, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic review on Spain, will make a fact-finding visit to Madrid and Barcelona from 12 to 14 November, to assess the honouring of membership...
31/10/2025 | Monitoring
Zsolt Németh (Hungary, ECPA) and Pablo Hispán (Spain, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina, will make a fact-finding visit to Sarajevo from 3 to 5 November. They are due to...
29/10/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed their deep concern at the ruling majority's decision to appeal to the Constitutional Court to ban three of the four democratic opposition parties. "As...
17/10/2025 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Kyiv from 8 to 10 October 2025, the PACE Monitoring Rapporteurs for Ukraine, Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), have welcomed the many reforms implemented by the Ukrainian authorities to ensure the functioning of the country’s...
29/09/2025 | Monitoring
PACE’s co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Türkiye, Lord David Blencathra (United Kingdom, ECPA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), have made the following statement: “We are deeply concerned about the recent events and ongoing backsliding of democracy in Türkiye. In particular, we are alarmed...
12/09/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed serious concern at Hungary’s lack of progress on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, pointing to a “worsening situation in certain areas”. Hungary has been under the Assembly’s monitoring...
10/09/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting on 9 September in Paris, proposed to close the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and to follow the developments in the country in the framework of its periodic reviews. It welcomed the fact that Bulgaria had overcome the political crisis and instability...
21/08/2025 | Monitoring
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Serbia, Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), has made the following statement today concerning the escalation of violence in Serbia: “I am deeply alarmed by the recent surge in violence across Serbia...