26/11/2024 | Monitoring
Ending a fact-finding visit to Warsaw, PACE co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Poland Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC) has strongly welcomed the reforms initiated by the authorities to ensure the independence of the judiciary in Poland and to implement the judgements of the European Court of Human...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee for Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), has made the following statement on the worsening health situation of civil society activists Anar Mammadli and Gubad Ibadoghlu: “I am deeply concerned about the health situation of human rights...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the honouring of Council of Europe obligations and commitments by Hungary, are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November. Hungary is one of ten countries currently subject to the full...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC), co-rapporteur for the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Poland, is to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November to look at recent judicial reforms, polarisation and the functioning of the country’s system of checks and...
13/11/2024 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee for Türkiye, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has made the following statement on recent developments in the country: “I am seriously concerned about the ongoing practice of dismissing mayors in municipalities run by the opposition and replacing them...
13/09/2024 | Monitoring
In an information note following his visit to Türkiye from 11 to 14 June 2024, Stefan Schennach, one of the co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, expressed a number of concerns relating to the independence of the judiciary, prison conditions, the execution of...
13/09/2024 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified by the Monitoring Committee on 11 September, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD), expressed their concern at “the exponential increase in attempts...
13/09/2024 | Monitoring
PACE’s Monitoring Committee has congratulated the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the pace of reforms since 2022 – but said it remains concerned about “the lack of, or insufficient, progress in some areas crucial for the functioning of democratic institutions”. Approving a draft...
05/07/2024 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Chisinau from 1 to 3 July 2024, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD), expressed their deep concern about the increasing number of reported attempts by...
18/06/2024 | Monitoring
Following a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 11-14 June 2024, PACE’s co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Türkiye, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and to continue their high...
07/06/2024 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, will make a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul from 11 to 14 June 2024. During his visit, Mr Schennach will...
22/05/2024 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, which met in Paris on 17 May, welcomed the electoral reforms implemented by Armenia in line with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, and stated that the objective to hold genuinely democratic elections had largely been achieved. In adopting the report by Kimmo...