21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
At the opening of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee in Chisinau PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos pledged the Assembly’s support for the priorities of the new Republic of Moldova Presidency, which began earlier this month, declaring they were “perfectly consistent” with the...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
In an address to the parliamentarians at the opening of the Standing Committee’s meeting in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi – and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers – set out the three main priorities of the six...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The President of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Grosu, welcoming PACE’s Standing Committee to Chisinau, underlined the significance of Moldova taking on the Presidency at a moment of acute geopolitical tension. “Today, as we take over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
Meeting today in Chisinau, the PACE Standing Committee addressed key issues related to Moldova’s electoral and political environment during a debate on the Assembly’s observation of the 28 September 2025 parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova. The head of PACE’s observer delegation...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau, held a current affairs debate on “Citizens’ mobilisation in the defence of human rights and democracy: recent developments in Latvia”, focusing on the unprecedented public mobilisation that followed the attempt to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul...
27/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Young people are not merely seeking permission to be involved in political decision-making but are already acting, raising their voices and demanding recognition for their work to shape the future they will inherit, participants at a PACE parliamentary round table in Valletta have heard. Youth...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in Malta on Friday 23 May 2025. The meeting was opened by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, followed by a...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
PACE has welcomed finalising the draft Third Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. Stressing the need for rapid and effective cross-border co-operation in the fight against transnational crime, the Assembly also underlined that such efforts...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Malta, welcomed “the member states’ political and financial commitment”, which resulted in an increase of the Council of Europe's financial resources within the framework of the 2024-2025 biennial budget, while underlining that “the Organisation's...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
“Democracy and peace are not established once and for all, as we might have believed after the end of the Cold War. We must strive to uphold them each and every day continuously in all parts of our continent and beyond,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Malta’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers “will be a voice for dialogue, but not at the expense of justice. A host to all, but never neutral in the face of suffering. A builder of bridges, but never an observer of the erosion of human rights,” said Angelo Farrugia, Speaker of the Maltese...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
“We stand ready to do our part in strengthening the engagement and dialogue between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly,” said Ian Borg, Malta’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, and President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...