27/05/2016 | Standing Committee
“Integration is important in terms of our national security, it makes sense politically and economically, but it also helps advance the values we share and provides an important societal and cultural connection,” said the Speaker of the Riigikogu Eiki Nestor.
27/05/2016 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Tallinn, called on member states to foster city-to-city co-operation in the field of culture, so as to re-energise democracy, increase the stability of regions and restore confidence in Europe.
27/05/2016 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Tallinn, expressed its concern at the frequent use of excessive force against peaceful demonstrators and at the recent restrictions on the right to freedom of assembly in several member States.
27/05/2016 | Standing Committee
“Corruption must no longer be considered as a crime without victims, for it undermines the rule of law and access to public resources” said today in Tallinn, Marin Mrčela, President of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO).
19/05/2016 | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee will meet in Tallinn on Friday 27 May at the Riigikogu (Parliament), in the context of the Estonian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (18 May – 22 November 2016).
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Following his recent visit to Azerbaijan, PACE President Pedro Agramunt, adressing PACE's Standing Committee in Paris today, referred to the detention of Ilgar Mammadov, whom he met during his visit.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
In its opinion on the draft Council of Europe Convention on Cinematographic Co-production, PACE proposed to set up a monitoring body with the functions to achieve better co-ordination of the implementation of the convention.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
In unanimously adopting a resolution on “Systematic collection of data on violence against women”, the Standing Committee stressed that violence against women cannot be combatted effectively without reliable data.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Laws on nationality in Cyprus, Norway, Romania and Switzerland “contain insufficient or no safeguards against childhood statelessness, in breach of regional and international obligations,” according to the Standing Committee.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
The Parliamentary Assembly is urging Europe’s governments to increase support for libraries and museums as “digital hubs” for local communities, and fresh “strategic thinking” on how to renew their role.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Some provisions of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure need to be clarified, supplemented or reviewed in order, PACE Standing Committee said today during its meeting in Paris.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
PACE has given its green light to a plan to open up the ground-breaking European Landscape Convention to countries worldwide, approving today an opinion based on a report by Stefan Schennach.