23/03/2026 | President
PACE President Petra Bayr, accompanied by the members of the PACE Presidential Committee - comprising the Chairpersons of the five PACE political groups and PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou - today held an exchange of views with Nikos Christodoulides, the President of Cyprus, on...
19/03/2026 | President
“Protecting social rights is not a secondary political agenda. It is the very foundation of democratic stability,” said PACE President Petra Bayr today, addressing the High-Level Conference on Social Rights and the European Social Charter, organised in Chisinau by the Council of Europe and the...
18/03/2026 | President
PACE President Petra Bayr made the following statement today, after a side-event held in the margins of the High-Level Conference on Social Rights (Chisinau, 18–19 March 2026): “On the occasion of the High-Level Conference on Social Rights – the European Social Charter, and at a time when these...
13/03/2026 | President
PACE President Petra Bayr has concluded a visit to the UN in New York by expressing strong support for the election of a woman as the next Secretary General of the UN. The President was participating in the 70th session of the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW70), dedicated this year to the...
10/03/2026 | President
PACE President Petra Bayr, in New York to attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women, met UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday for an exchange with him on key issues facing both organisations. “The UN and PACE share the same objectives and concerns: consolidating the rules-based...
06/03/2026 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE President Petra Bayr and the Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo (Monaco, ALDE), made the following joint statement on the eve of International Women’s Day 2026:“On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we join the United Nations...
24/02/2026 | President
“A Europe that tolerates Putin’s war betrays its values – and a Europe that betrays its values betrays its future,” today said PACE President Petra Bayr, in video message on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “This is not only a war against...
20/02/2026 | President
“The Council of Europe and the OSCE share a fundamental principle: human rights and democracy are not separate from security – they are its foundation,” today said PACE President Petra Bayr, addressing the 25th Winter meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) in Vienna. Evoking current...
05/02/2026 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE President Petra Bayr and Mogens Jensen, Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media today made the following joint statement: On the eve of the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Cortina, PACE President Petra Bayr and Mogens Jensen, Chairperson of the PACE...
29/01/2026 | President
The first meeting of a new platform for dialogue between the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and Russian democratic forces took place in Strasbourg today, on the margins of the Assembly’s winter plenary session. The new Platform, which was created last October, will enable...
26/01/2026 | Session
Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC) has been elected today President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for a one-year term of office, which may be renewed once. She obtained an absolute majority in the first round of voting with 164 votes to 50 for the other candidate, Victoria...
19/12/2025 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, made the following statement today: “In recent days, following a recommendation by a high-ranking member of a political group within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, I agreed to...