24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“In the Parliamentary Assembly, we look forward to working closely together with the authorities, and in particular with the Seimas, towards achieving the priorities of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the...
24/05/2024 | President
In the framework of the PACE Standing Committee meeting, held today in Vilnius, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, made the following statement: “At the start of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council...
17/05/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has hailed the “revolutionary spirit” of the Council of Europe – marking its 75th anniversary this month – and pledged that the Assembly would be true to its founding mission of giving form to the aspirations of the peoples of Europe. “We are vested with the...
17/05/2024 | President
“As long as our principles gather us around the same table of mutual understanding, there is still hope, even though the landscape ahead is rocky,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, at the opening of the 133rd Session of the Committee of Ministers, in the presence of the Foreign Affairs...
16/05/2024 | President
“With its unique mandate, expertise, moral authority and a certain flexibility of action which others might lack, the Council of Europe has a clear role and purpose in today’s international landscape, and is capable of reacting to new challenges and of taking proactive steps in previously unknown...
14/05/2024 | President
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos strongly condemned the attacks on civil society activists, media representatives and members of the opposition, as well as the use of disproportionate force by the police against peaceful demonstrators who oppose the...
07/05/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Austria on 14-15 May. In Vienna, he will meet the Speaker of the Austrian National Council as well as the Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). On 15 May, Mr...
30/04/2024 | President
As part of the project “Support for the development of the role of Parliament in the consolidation of democracy in Morocco 2020-2024”, financed by the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco and PACE today organised a seminar to close...
27/04/2024 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbayev, today made the following joint statement on the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Cooperation...
25/04/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Morocco on 29-30 April. In Rabat, he will meet the Speakers of the two Houses of the Moroccan Parliament, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other members of the...
22/04/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has expressed his sadness at the death of Baroness Doreen E. Massey, a long-standing member of the Assembly from the United Kingdom and a champion of children’s rights. “Baroness Massey was a deeply committed and active member of our Parliamentary Assembly...
16/04/2024 | President
The President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, yesterday requested the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) for an urgent opinion on the compliance with Council of Europe standards of the Georgian draft law on Transparency...