15/04/2024 | Session
The follow-up to the Reykjavik Summit; the lists of candidates for the posts of judges at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Austria, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein and Monaco; the 2024 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment; and the observation of the presidential and parliamentary...
15/04/2024 | Session
PACE today welcomed the elaboration of the Venice Commission Checklist Parameters on the relationship between the parliamentary majority and the opposition in a democracy and recommended it to the parliaments of Council of Europe member states and observer states, as well as to parliaments...
15/04/2024 | Session
PACE stressed today the need to update guidelines to ensure fair referendums. Recognising that recent national referendums have faced scrutiny over process and fairness, PACE proactively engaged with the Venice Commission to address these concerns. Adopting the resolution based on the report by...
15/04/2024 | Session
Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during its spring session, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Mihai Popșoi, expressed his country´s commitment to “continue deep reforms and transformation of the Moldovan society, overcome...
28/01/2024 | Session
Debates on recent developments in the Middle East: Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s response, and on allegations of systemic torture in places of detention in Europe, were among highlights of the 2024 Winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), held...
26/01/2024 | Session
According to PACE, the abuse of children in institutions in Europe must be recognised, whether they have been victims of sexual predators, gratuitous violence or ill-treatment in public, private or religious institutions. Drawing on the example of good practice in Switzerland, PACE called for...
26/01/2024 | Session
PACE has taken stock of its monitoring activities in 2023 and made a series of assessments of the eleven countries under its full monitoring procedure, the three engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, and the three countries subject this year to “periodic review” of their obligations to the Council...
25/01/2024 | Session
Following an urgent debate today, PACE unanimously adopted a resolution based on the report by Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, EC/DA) underscoring the urgent need to address the situation and fate of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine...
25/01/2024 | Session
United around our values - “The 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe that we are celebrating this year is taking place under the same motto that brought our leaders together in Reykjavík,” said Dominique Hasler, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport of Liechtenstein and President...
25/01/2024 | Session
There is an urgent need for all Council of Europe member states to act together against SLAPPs – frivolous, vexatious or malicious legal proceedings which aim to intimidate, harass or silence their targets, thus threatening public participation – according to the Assembly. Approving a resolution...
25/01/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has set out wide-ranging proposals to build a democratic future for Belarus – including a new set of measures to support Belarusian democratic forces led by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who also addressed the Assembly. Approving a resolution...
25/01/2024 | Session
PACE today emphasised the pressing need “to enforce the high standards on media freedom which the Council of Europe has established, to ensure effective protection of journalists and to uphold in all member States a friendly and safe environment for media independence and pluralism”. It recalled...