30/09/2025 | Session
Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stressed the preparedness of the people of Armenia to safeguard democracy, fight human rights violations and nurture the “newborn peace” with the help of the Council of Europe and...
30/09/2025 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today re-elected Despina Chatzivassiliou to the post of Secretary General of the Assembly. She will serve a second five-year term starting on 1 March 2026. Addressing the Assembly members upon her election, she said: “Your cross-party...
30/09/2025 | Session
Joint statement by the Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbayev, and the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Theodoros Rousopoulos, on 30 September 2025, on the occasion of the Assembly’s debate on democratic reforms...
30/09/2025 | Session
"Kazakhstan has decisively and irreversibly embarked on the path of democratic transformation," today said Maulen Ashimbayev, Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan, adressing the Assembly in the framework of a debate on its support for democratic reforms in the country. "Democratic reform is a...
30/09/2025 | Session
“The situation in Türkiye is extremely worrying,” said Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), opening a current affairs debate today on Democracy, the rule of law and inclusive dialogue in Türkiye during the Assembly’s autumn plenary session in Strasbourg. “Türkiye is increasingly reaching the lower...
30/09/2025 | Session
PACE today stressed the importance of supporting Kazakhstan in its path of democratic transformation. “Kazakhstan has shown commitment to reform, and it is crucial that this momentum be sustained and strengthened,” said the Assembly. Adopting the resolution, based on the report by Zsolt Németh...
29/09/2025 | Session
Standing before the original text of the European Convention on Human Rights, displayed in the Hemicycle to mark its 75th anniversary, the PACE President opened the 2025 autumn session stating that this text “is not simply a document on display. It is the very compass that has guided Europe for...
29/09/2025 | Prizes
The thirteenth Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to Ukrainian journalist and human rights defender Maksym Butkevych. The prize was presented at a special ceremony on the opening day of the autumn plenary...
29/09/2025 | Session
According to the report presented today by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE) in plenary session, the 2025 presidential election in Poland was “competitive, well managed, and gave voters a genuine choice”. The report emphasises that election day was calm and professional, and that the very high turnout...
29/09/2025 | Session
PACE today elected, at the opening of its Autumn 2025 session, Olta Xhaçka as a new Vice-President of the Assembly in respect of Albania. 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 Vice...
29/09/2025 | Session
The list of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Cyprus and Hungary; the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize; the observation of the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova; and the World Forum for Democracy, were among the items in the...
27/06/2025 | Session
Addresses by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abela, as well as the award of the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment to the Women of the Sun organisation were among the highlights of the summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly...