27/04/2023 | Session
According to PACE, trade should be greener and fairer: all trade and investment agreements should contain “comprehensive provisions on sustainable development and protection of fundamental rights”, with strong enforcement which is commensurate with protecting investors. Unanimously approving a...
26/04/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Sebastian Răduleţu as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Romania. Mr Răduleţu, having obtained a majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office of nine...
26/04/2023 | Session
PACE has urged Council of Europe member states to show their support for the authorities of Türkiye and Syria following the earthquakes that recently struck both countries, and called more widely for greater preparedness for “natural” disasters and extreme events. Unanimously approving a...
25/04/2023 | Session
“Support and solidarity with Ukraine is one of the main priorities of our Presidency and we have worked hard to ensure that the outcome of the Reykjavík Summit in May further strengthens our collective resolve,” said Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland...
25/04/2023 | Session
"The Russian Federation is writing a bloody page in European history, waging a barbaric war of aggression to achieve its imperialistic objectives. It is exactly because our deepest values are being trampled upon that we must reaffirm our identity. The Reykjavik Summit is the response of the...
25/04/2023 | Session
While Council of Europe member states must implement the final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, and comply with any interim measures it issues, national courts and the Strasbourg Court should show “mutual respect” and engage in judicial dialogue to uphold human rights, according...
25/04/2023 | Session
According to PACE, the Partnership for Democracy, launched in 2010, has achieved its primary goal of establishing structured and value-based co-operation with the neighbouring countries’ parliaments willing to perform a rapprochement with the Assembly on the basis of shared values. PACE recalled...
24/04/2023 | Session
An urgent debate on "The situation of Ukrainian civilians, including children, forcibly displaced or transferred to the Russian Federation or Ukrainian territories under the de facto control of the Russian Federation", with the online intervention of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, was one...
24/04/2023 | Session
PACE today elected, at the opening of its Spring 2023 Session, Elisabetta Gardini as a new Vice-President of the Assembly in respect of Italy. Nineteen Vice-Presidents are elected annually at the beginning of an ordinary session and remain in office until the opening of the next session (but a...
24/04/2023 | Session
"Although the 4th Summit will be by and large an intergovernmental event, a parliamentary dimension will also be ensured. Our Standing Committee will hold an extraordinary meeting on 15 May in Reykjavik and an Assembly delegation will attend the Summit itself", PACE President Tiny Kox today said...
24/04/2023 | Session
“The protection of human rights in Europe has suffered serious setbacks in 2022,” said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, presenting her Annual Report today before the Parliamentary Assembly. The report largely focuses on the atrocities committed by the Russian...
24/04/2023 | Session
The PACE contribution to a fourth Council of Europe Summit; the 2023 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize; the activities of the Standing Committee in The Hague (3 March 2023); as well as the observation of the presidential elections in Montenegro and the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria were among...