06/10/2014 | President
Speaking at a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the European Pharmacopoeia, Anne Brasseur called it a Council of Europe “success story”. The positive impact on public health activities is undeniable, she said.
03/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur today decisively condemned the violations of the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine. She expressed her indignation that despite the ceasefire and numerous calls to respect it, fighting continued.
03/10/2014 | President
The Assembly stood for a minute of silence today in memory of the lives lost in the Mediterranean, exactly one year to the day after 368 Eritrean refugees and migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
25/09/2014 | President
Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to Azerbaijan, PACE President, Anne Brasseur, has called for a broad dialogue between the authorities, political actors and civil society.
19/09/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur, on a working visit to Azerbaijan from 22 to 24 September 2014, met the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice.
19/09/2014 | President
“The Istanbul Convention has a soul. It is a blueprint for future society in which violence against women will no longer be justified (...) It will be prevented, fought, punished and finally rejected by everyone”, Anne Brasseur said.
18/09/2014 | President
“Sport must not be above the law,” stressed Anne Brasseur, speaking in Macolin at the opening of the Conference of European Ministers of Sport, organised by the Council of Europe and the Swiss Federal Office of Sport.
17/09/2014 | President
During her visit to PACE President Anne Brasseur in Strasbourg, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini reiterated her interest and willingness to address PACE at one of its forthcoming sessions.
12/09/2014 | President
Europe needs strong parliaments to promote its common values, backed up by the 'anchor' of the European Convention on Human Rights, heads of parliament from across the continent have agreed.
11/09/2014 | President
Assembly President Anne Brasseur has urged parliamentarians to speak out on the dangers facing the European Court of Human Rights, such as the non-implementation of a few judgments.
10/09/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur and Olemic Thommessen, President of the Storting, fully support the proposal for a European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime on 22 July, date of the Utoya attacks
08/09/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur has paid tribute to Jim Dobbin, a member of the British delegation to PACE, who passed away suddenly while on a visit to Poland as part of an Assembly delegation.