18/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority has requested the continuation of the Palestinian National Council’s ‘Partner for democracy’ status with PACE.
08/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
"Parliaments are the strategic venue for any political reform which leads to freedom, the gateway to every Spring!" said the Speaker of the Portuguese Parliament Assunção Esteves, speaking in Lisbon.
08/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Our advanced status in the EU and Partner for Democracy status in PACE are constantly influencing our political choices,” said the Speaker of the Moroccan House of Councillors.
08/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
"A Partnership for Democracy with the PACE is and should not be for free; it needs obligations and commitments for both partners," said Tiny Kox.
08/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“The representative institutions, such as Parliaments and Constituent Assemblies, have a key role to play in the transformation process launched by the Arab Spring”, today said João B. Mota Amaral.
05/11/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The role of representative institutions in the political changes in the South Mediterranean and the Middle East will be the central theme of a conference organised by PACE with the support of the EU at the Ismaili Centre on 8 November.
03/10/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Any opening of dialogue between the Assembly and the Belarusian authorities should remain conditional on the release of political prisoners and on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, PACE committee says.
05/09/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Meeting in Paris, the committee sets out a series of measures designed to guarantee fair taxation of global profits, and encourages the OECD “to step up its fight against the widespread aggressive tax evasion.
04/09/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Xenophobia and anti-Europeanism seem to go hand in hand in many countries across the continent, stressed experts at a hearing on counteraction to manifestations of neo-Nazism and xenophobia.
03/09/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Political Affairs Committee will discuss the political transition in Egypt during a hearing to be held tomorrow, 4 September, in Paris, in the context of a report on this issue prepared by José María Beneyto.
01/08/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs, joined by Pietro Marcenaro, former PACE Rapporteur on the situation in Syria, has expressed deep concern at the disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio.
26/07/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
"I strongly condemn the murder of Mohamed Brahmi, an opposition member of the Constituent Assembly. Not only did the murderers execute him in cold blood; they caused a setback to democratic development," Anne Brasseur said.