10/10/2025 | President
Reacting to the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize award announced today, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos made the following statement: “I warmly congratulate María Corina Machado on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Just a year ago, our Assembly...
09/10/2025 | President
“Democracy must be learned, lived and renewed with each generation, and the Parliamentary Assembly has made this renewal part of its daily work,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos at an event on 8 October, on the sidelines of the 10th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible...
08/10/2025 | President
“Our parliaments are not just places where laws are made — they are where democracy breathes. They give voice to disagreement, ensure transparency, and uphold the bond of trust between citizens and the state,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, addressing the Maltese Parliament on 6...
26/09/2025 | President
PACE will launch an annual “Victory for Viktoria” commemoration to honour war correspondents and journalists who risk, and often lose, their lives defending the right to information and truth in conflict zones. The initiative was proposed by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and welcomed by...
20/09/2025 | President
“The struggle against crime and the need for international cooperation are part of the very fabric of political life and of our common European history,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos on 19 September in Valletta (Malta) at a conference of Ministers of Justice on cross-border...
05/08/2025 | President
Speaking at Birkenau, the PACE President, Theodoros Rousopoulos, underlined the Assembly’s strong commitment to remembrance, calling for truth, no matter how painful. “We must not cover the truth — not in images, not in words, not in history,” he said. “Because a masked past will soon fade out...
31/07/2025 | President
Warning that “the serious politician is losing ground to the populist”, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged politicians to return to the values of trust in order to retain public support during an address to Speakers of Parliament from around the world. In a speech yesterday to the...
09/07/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), today made the following statement: “On the eve of the eleventh anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment attributing...
04/07/2025 | President
“Andorra's voice in the Council of Europe has always been strong and clear,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, addressing the General Council (the Parliament of Andorra) in plenary session today, during an official visit to the country. In this regard, he recalled that the Andorran...
03/07/2025 | President
“In 1975, the Helsinki Final Act was not just a diplomatic milestone. It was a moral statement: that the security of states depends on the security of people,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session today in Porto. That belief lives on, he...
01/07/2025 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make an official visit to Andorra on 4 July. During his visit, he will meet the Head of the Government, the Speaker of the General Council (the Parliament of Andorra), the Minister of Foreign...
23/06/2025 | Session
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, opening the Assembly’s summer session in Strasbourg today, announced an address later in the week by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during his first visit to the Council of Europe, and urged “the final steps” towards the establishment of an...