26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
Strasbourg, 26.04.2018 - The Assembly intends to draw all the necessary consequences, on all levels, from the conclusions of the investigation body on corruption allegations within PACE, “which are now indisputable”. This applies to recommendations aimed at improving its general operating...
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Rules Committee has delivered its findings on the behaviour of the first three individual PACE members mentioned in the report of the independent investigation body looking into allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly – and decided to postpone a decision on a fourth. The...
09/03/2018 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee has proposed to the PACE to remove Turkish from PACE’s list of working languages. According to the committee, “the draconian reduction” of the Assembly’s budget for 2018 and 2019 “calls for drastic measures”.
01/03/2018 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Parliamentarians from Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Sweden and Andorra voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2017, according to statistics made public.
21/09/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The Committee on Rules of Procedure welcomed the prospect of a future CoE Summit of Heads of State or Government in order to revitalise democracy, the rule of law and human rights, values which today are severely “under pressure”.
05/07/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Parliamentarians from Andorra, Switzerland and Sweden voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2016, according to statistics made public today.
08/06/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The Committee on Rules of Procedure today made public a draft resolution on the “Recognition and implementation of the principle of accountability in the Parliamentary Assembly”, adopted at its meeting in Paris on 2 June.
27/04/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The Rules Committee today underlined that the lack of mechanisms to enable the Assembly to ensure compliance with the duty of accountability of its members holding elective offices undermines its proper functioning.
26/04/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee considers that the Council of Europe cannot address its challenges such as responding to the populist threat, protecting the rights of migrants and combating terrorism “without working towards a genuinely social Europe”.
26/04/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The PACE activities in the biennal 2018-2019 will be related to the priorities of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, namely “tackling the rise in populism, dealing with the refugee crisis and combating terrorism”.
18/05/2016 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee expressed its concern at the serious infringements of the independence and freedom of expression of certain members, who have been the target of disguised sanctions on the part of their parliament or their party.
18/05/2016 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
“Parliamentary responsibility is a fundamental concept for the smooth functioning of any representative democracy,” Michele Nicoletti said, introducing a joint seminar on parliamentary accountability today in Rome.