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...
23/06/2025 | Monitoring
Following a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 10-13 June 2025, the PACE 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 very grateful to the Turkish authorities...
13/06/2025 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed deep concern about the continuing crackdown on political dissent in Georgia, including the...
04/06/2025 | Monitoring
Lord David Blencathra (United Kingdom, ECPA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, will make a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul from 10 to 13 June...
19/05/2025 | Monitoring
Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Hungary, have made the following statement today concerning the draft law in Hungary on “transparency in public life”: “As...