06/06/2012 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Russia of the PACE Monitoring Committee, Andi Gross (Switzerland, SOC) and György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD) today expressed their serious concern at the adoption by the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament of a controversial bill designed to increase fines for orchestrating unauthorised demonstrations...
05/06/2012 | Monitoring
While the political climate in Albania is still tense and antagonistic, there is clearly “a more constructive attitude” among all political forces, according to PACE’s monitoring co-rapporteurs for the country Tomáš Jirsa (Czech Republic, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Moldova, UEL).
01/06/2012 | Monitoring
Karin Woldseth (Norway, EDG) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Bosnia and Herzegovina will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 7 June 2012 to assess the implementation of its commitments and obligations as a Council of Europe member state.
29/05/2012 | Monitoring
Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE) and Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG), who are currently assessing the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary, will visit Brussels on 30 May for high-level meetings with members of the European Commission and the European Parliament.
19/05/2012 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), have welcomed the recent access given by the authorities to imprisoned opposition leaders. After meeting with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Kharkiv hospital where she is being treated, the rapporteurs said they were glad that she is now receiving proper medical treatment under the supervision of doctors she trusts.
16/05/2012 | Monitoring
On the eve of the International Day against Homophobia, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova, have expressed their concern relating to the preparation of an Anti-Discrimination Law...
11/05/2012 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, will visit former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Kharkiv on 16 May, as well as meeting her lawyers. They will also talk to the lawyers of the imprisoned former government ministers, Yuriy Lutsenko and Valeriy Ivashchenko. These meetings will be held during a monitoring visit by the co-rapporteurs (15-17 May), the purpose of which is to assess the implementation of PACE Resolution 1862 (2012) on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine.
07/05/2012 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Russia, Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC) and György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD), have expressed their concern at the violence which followed the mass demonstration in Moscow on the eve of the presidential inauguration, and the detention of more than 250 participants.
04/05/2012 | Monitoring
Robert Walter (United Kingdom, EDG), PACE rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 7 to 10 May 2012.
13/04/2012 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), have welcomed the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada yesterday of the new Code of Criminal Procedure for Ukraine. Given the extraordinarily large number of amendments that were tabled to the original draft, the co-rapporteurs especially welcomed the pledge of the President of Ukraine that he will only sign this code into law after having received assurances from the Council of Europe that it is fully in line with European standards and norms.
02/04/2012 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine have welcomed plans to address structural deficiencies in the Ukrainian justice system, such as the draft Code of Criminal Procedure, but stressed that these plans now need to be adopted and, most importantly, implemented.
29/03/2012 | Monitoring
Tomáš Jirsa (Czech Republic, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Republic of Moldova, UEL), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to that country from 2 to 4 April 2012. In Tirana, they are due to meet the President of the Republic Bamir Topi, the Prime Minister Sali Berisha and the Minister of Justice Eduard Halimi.