02/03/2012 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The adoption of a report on good governance and ethics in sport, including a number of recommendations concerning recent events at football’s governing body FIFA, will be the highlight of a meeting of PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Paris on Tuesday 6 March 2012.
08/12/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Committee on Culture, Science and Education today pointed out that the right of everyone to take part in cultural life presupposes equal and free access for all to a variety of cultural resources. Adopting a report by Muriel Marland-Militello (France, EPP/CD), the committee said that states not only had a responsibility to ensure a wide supply of cultural services but should also act as “an initiator, promoter and regulator of interaction”.
08/12/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
To protect freedom of expression and information on the internet and online media, the Committee on Culture, Science and Education encourages all intermediaries of ICT-based media to set up self-regulatory codes of conduct for respect of their users’ right to freedom of expression and information.
06/12/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
"In a world of sport that has become global, the financial stakes are now enormous, and even the economic crisis has not curbed the general tendency towards excess." With these words, François Rochebloine (France, EPP/CD) this morning opened the hearing in Paris on good governance and ethics in sport, organised in the context of his writing of a report on the subject.
02/12/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
As part of the preparation of a report by François Rochebloine (France, EPP/CD), PACE's Committee on Culture will be holding on 6 December in Paris (9.30 a.m., Council of Europe Office, 55, Avenue Kléber) a hearing on issues of governance and ethics in the sports world. The questions of financial fair play and protecting young migrant footballers, as well as issues of power and internal politics inside sports bodies, will be addressed.
12/09/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“We are very concerned by threats to media freedom in Ukraine, which chairs the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers at a time of severe national political challenges," said Mats Johansson, the Standing Rapporteur for Media Freedom of PACE's Committee on Culture, Science and Education, and Arne König, President of the European Federation of Journalists, who are both attending a PACE hearing in Stockholm on the state of media freedom in Europe.
08/09/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
A major parliamentary hearing on the state of media freedom in Europe will take place on Monday 12 September at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, attended by around 90 government officials, parliamentarians and leading media professionals. The event is being organised jointly by the PACE Sub-committee on the Media and the Swedish Parliament.
17/05/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Committee on Culture, Science and Education unanimously adopted during its meeting in Ljubljana the report by Andreja Rihter (Slovenia, SOC) on 'Protection of privacy and personal data on the Internet and online media'. According to the rapporteur, "the digitalisation of information has caused unprecedented possibilities for the identification of individuals through their data.
29/04/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“World Press Freedom Day is a moment to celebrate the right to freedom of expression and information through the media as one of the most fundamental political rights for every individual and for the functioning of democratic societies,” said Mats Johansson (Sweden, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) standing rapporteur on media freedom.
18/03/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
There are many dark sides to the fate of personal data on the Internet, with questions arising about the right to respect for privacy and the right to data protection. This was the conclusion of participants in a hearing, held in Paris today by PACE's Culture Committee, on the subject of privacy and the management of private information on the Internet and other on-line media.
18/03/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
"We are today confronted with manifestations of intolerance, rejection and violence which are a threat to social cohesion. There is an urgent need for a new ‘living together’ paradigm. Each of us must not just accept the existence of differing sensitivities, religious or other, but must also respect them. Pretending not to care is inappropriate; feeling threatened is a mistake", according to Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), presenting her report on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue to the Culture Committee in Paris.
04/03/2011 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Mats Johansson, Standing Rapporteur of the PACE on Media Freedom, and Arne König, President of the European Federation of Journalists, today made the following statement on the situation of the media in Belarus: “We are shocked by the systematic silencing of the independent media in Belarus, which has dramatically increased since the presidential elections in December last year, resulting into a de facto denial of freedom of expression and information of the Belarus people.”