29/10/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed their deep concern at the ruling majority's decision to appeal to the Constitutional Court to ban three of the four democratic opposition parties. "As...
17/10/2025 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Kyiv from 8 to 10 October 2025, the PACE Monitoring Rapporteurs for Ukraine, Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), have welcomed the many reforms implemented by the Ukrainian authorities to ensure the functioning of the country’s...
29/09/2025 | Monitoring
PACE’s co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Türkiye, Lord David Blencathra (United Kingdom, ECPA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), have made the following statement: “We are deeply concerned about the recent events and ongoing backsliding of democracy in Türkiye. In particular, we are alarmed...
12/09/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed serious concern at Hungary’s lack of progress on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, pointing to a “worsening situation in certain areas”. Hungary has been under the Assembly’s monitoring...
10/09/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting on 9 September in Paris, proposed to close the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and to follow the developments in the country in the framework of its periodic reviews. It welcomed the fact that Bulgaria had overcome the political crisis and instability...
21/08/2025 | Monitoring
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Serbia, Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), has made the following statement today concerning the escalation of violence in Serbia: “I am deeply alarmed by the recent surge in violence across Serbia...
07/08/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Cudic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have strongly condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli to two years' imprisonment. " This sentence is disproportionate, clearly politically motivated, and an example...
31/07/2025 | Monitoring
Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), the PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, have welcomed the adoption of a law to restore the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies. "The swift drafting and adoption of this law show that the presidential...
24/07/2025 | Monitoring
Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), the monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), have expressed their deep concern at the adoption and subsequent signing into force of the law that strips Ukraine’s...
01/07/2025 | Monitoring
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Serbia, Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), has today made the following statement concerning the massive protest in Belgrade on 28 June 2025: “I am deeply concerned about the escalating tensions in...
30/06/2025 | Monitoring
Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD) and Yves Cruchten (Luxembourg, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, will make a fact-finding visit to Sofia on 2-3 July. They are due to meet the Speaker of the...
27/06/2025 | Monitoring
The monitoring rapporteurs for Georgia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabine Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed their deep concern at the politically-motivated prosecution of opposition members and civil society...