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Culture Committee cancels Moscow meeting, citing Ukraine crisis

03/03/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Citing Ukraine's crisis, the Chairperson of PACE's Culture Committee has decided to cancel a forthcoming meeting in Moscow. In a separate decision, the Committee on Legal Affairs has called for a PACE fact-finding mission to Crimea.

A call for a White Paper on ‘Democracy, politics and the Internet’

04/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The Internet must not be allowed to become a gigantic prying mechanism, operating beyond democratic control, a no-go area dominated by hidden powers, in which no responsibility can be assigned to anyone, Anne Brasseur said.

Committee calls for measures to preserve endangered sites

04/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The endangered heritage and the lack of safeguards for it are of concern for many member states, particularly in central and eastern Europe, south east Europe and the Caucasus, says the Culture Committee.

The Baksi Museum (Turkey) wins 2014 Museum Prize

03/12/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014 has been awarded to the Baksi Museum in Bayburt (Turkey). This museum aspires to bring a high standard of art and design to an under-developed rural area of Northern Anatolia.

Crowdsourcing and semantic polling, tools that help policy-makers

28/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

“Crowdsourcing and semantic polling are tools that help policy-makers, but it will always be up to policy-makers to assume full responsibility and not water it down”, said Anne Brasseur.

Three nominees for the Council of Europe Museum Prize 2014

21/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The jury of the European Museum Forum (EMF) has selected a short list of three candidates for the 2014 Council of Europe Museum Prize, in the presence of Vesna Marjanovic PACE rapporteur on the prize.

Parliamentarians encourage ministers to improve media freedom and keep journalists safe

07/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Parliamentarians from Serbia and from PACE have jointly called on Council of Europe ministers to reinforce their action to improve media freedom throughout Europe and keep journalists safe.

State surveillance of internet data: when is it legitimate?

01/10/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Following the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, when and on what terms states should have the right to interfere with an individual's internet data was the focus of a hearing in PACE's Culture Committee today.

Conference on transparency of media ownership

25/09/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

Organised in co-operation with the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society, the conference will focus in particular on good practices and the role of parliaments in the context of transparency of media ownership.

Football: better representation of all stakeholders in the decision-making process

10/09/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

The Assembly Sub-Committee on the Reform of International Football welcomed the introduction of 'financial fair play' by UEFA, but insisted on the need for proper implementation.

PACE/FIFA: “If you want to be credible, you have to be transparent”

18/07/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

On behalf of the Assembly delegation, which she headed on 16 July 2013 in an exchange of views at FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE) welcomed the direct, open dialogue initiated with the FIFA President.

Concern about the closure of the public broadcasting service in Greece

13/06/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

“I was extremely surprised by the closure late on Tuesday of Greece’s three public radio and TV services, ERT,” said Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD), Chair of the PACE Sub-Committee on Media.