20/06/2023 | Session
According to the resolution adopted today by PACE, based on the report by Selin Sayek Böke (Türkiye, SOC), States must urgently “learn the lessons from previous health emergencies by strengthening the global health architecture and developing necessary strategies at national levels”, in order to...
19/06/2023 | Session
“This week’s debate on the budget and priorities of the Council of Europe for 2024-2027 takes on its full meaning. We need to discuss how the decisions of the Summit can best be implemented in the years to come, including by the Assembly. I call on all Member States, after the adoption of the...
19/06/2023 | Session
Among the items in the progress report of the PACE’s Bureau and Standing Committee, presented today by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE) in plenary session, the PACE contribution to a fourth Council of Europe Summit; the activities of the Standing Committee in Reykjavik (15 May 2023) and Riga (26 May...
19/06/2023 | Session
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey (14 and 28 May 2023) enjoyed a high turnout and offered a choice between genuine political alternatives, according to a report presented today by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC) at the PACE plenary session. The Chairperson of the PACE observer...
19/06/2023 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has responded to parliamentarians’ questions at the PACE Summer session’s Question Time. During a lively Q & A session, Marija Pejčinović Burić highlighted the results of the Fourth Summit of the Heads of State and Government in...
19/06/2023 | Session
Addressing the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), which is meeting in Strasbourg for its 2023 Summer Session, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, referred to the foreign policy of his country in the context of the war of aggression against Ukraine. “There's...
28/04/2023 | Session
PACE today lauded San Marino for its “wide and impressive range of institutional consultation mechanisms and instruments of direct democracy” while expressing concern about the numerous reports that indicate that these consultation mechanisms are “not always used as foreseen by law, or that its...
28/04/2023 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has emphasised the importance of ensuring safe social media use for young people “to promote youth participation in social, economic and political life via the media”. In a resolution based on the report by Fiona O’Loughlin (Ireland, ALDE...
27/04/2023 | Session
Adopting a resolution on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, based on a report presented by Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) expressed its concern about the delays in implementing the Court's...
27/04/2023 | Session
The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, commended the Parliamentary Assembly for its swift response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We must continue to condemn this violation of international law and norms. Therefore, let us all hope that the Reykjavík summit next month will deliver...
27/04/2023 | Session
PACE has demanded the safe return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia or territory it temporarily occupies, as well as punishment of those who carried it out at all levels – pointing out that the documented evidence of this practice matches with the international definition of...
27/04/2023 | Session
"If there is one lesson to be drawn from the current sanguinary page of European history written by the Russian Federation, it is that appeasement is not an option. The aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is not only a brutal, illegal, unjustified and unjustifiable war of...