29/01/2020 | Session
The Assembly’s Rules Committee has concluded that the credentials of three national delegations, challenged on procedural grounds at the opening of the session, should be ratified.
29/01/2020 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today reaffirmed that Council of Europe member States “had an obligation to ensure non-discrimination in the workplace including on the grounds of religion or belief”.
29/01/2020 | Session
“Despite the uncertainties, the European project of the Common Home remains a project that inspires and mobilises,” said Igor Dodon, President of the Republic of Moldova, addressing the Assembly today.
29/01/2020 | Session
The Council of Europe must take a leading role in overcoming new challenges to human rights, democracy and the rule of law, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has told the Parliamentary Assembly.
29/01/2020 | Session
The Assembly welcomed the contacts with the Committee of Ministers with a view to setting up a joint procedure between the two organs in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations.
29/01/2020 | Session
PACE has ratified the credentials of the Russian parliamentary delegation – by 96 votes to 44, with 7 abstentions – after they were challenged on substantive grounds on the opening day of the session.
28/01/2020 | Session
The Assembly held a vote by secret ballot on the election of the candidate proposed by the Russian delegation, Piotr Tolstoy. The voting took place yesterday and the results were announced this morning.
28/01/2020 | Session
"The Holocaust is part of our collective memory. It is our duty to make sure that never again may such atrocities happen,” said Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
28/01/2020 | Session
“Georgia's accession to the Council of Europe 21 years ago has marked the start of a path towards the transformation of our society, the liberation of the individual, the democratisation of the political system, the consolidation of democratic institutions, and a state based on the rule of law...
28/01/2020 | Session
The credentials of six national delegations, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Sweden and Switzerland, challenged at the opening of the session on grounds of gender-balance, have been approved.
28/01/2020 | Session
In the second round of voting Piotr Tolstoy did obtain an absolute majority of the votes cast, with more than half the number of representatives having voted. He is therefore elected as a PACE Vice-President.
28/01/2020 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected Mattias Guyomar as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of France for a term of office of nine years which shall commence as from 22 June 2020.