06/03/2024 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting today in Paris, proposed closing the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and following the developments in the country with regard to the rule of law, democracy and human rights in the framework of its periodic reviews. By adopting the report by Thórhildur...
12/02/2024 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Chișinău and Comrat from 4 to 7 February 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), have welcomed continued progress on the far-reaching reforms of...
04/12/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has urged Council of Europe member states to respect the rulings of the Strasbourg Court, boost the Council of Europe’s “early warning capacity” and develop a more flexible, credible and coherent “toolkit” of measures for putting pressure on states that do not respect...
04/12/2023 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting today in Rome, has adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2023 and making a series of assessments of the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of countries that were subject...
27/11/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Hungary by PACE, Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), have made the following statement: “We were informed that the Hungarian Parliament has started to examine a bill on the ‘defence of national sovereignty’, as well as...
20/11/2023 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), one of the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 20-21 November, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe, since the adoption of PACE Resolution...
15/11/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), have called on Council of Europe member states to support Armenia as it faces the...
02/11/2023 | Monitoring
Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 6 to 8 November 2023. In Yerevan, Mr...
06/10/2023 | Monitoring
Ending a visit to Belgrade and Novi Sad (2-4 October 2023), Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC), co-rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Serbia, made the following statement: “I am very grateful to the Serbian...
05/10/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, Asim Mollazada (Azerbaijan, EC/DA) and Ionut Stroe (Romania, EPP/CD), have welcomed the progress made since their last visit, despite continuing profound...
29/09/2023 | Monitoring
Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Serbia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 2 to 4 October 2023. In Belgrade, Mr Schäfer is due to meet, in...
29/09/2023 | Monitoring
“We wish to express our deep consternation at the decision of the Turkish Court of Cassation which confirmed the aggravated life sentence for philanthropist Osman Kavala. This is in disregard of two decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ordering his release,” said today John Howell...