17/04/2013 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine), have welcomed the continuing efforts displayed by the Ukrainian authorities to reform the judiciary ...
16/04/2013 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for PACE's monitoring of Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), have welcomed the recently-adopted reforms of the justice system. Speaking following a four-day visit to the country (8-11 April 2013), they said: “These reforms will greatly improve the independence of the judiciary, which is something we have repeatedly called for..."
15/04/2013 | Monitoring
Jonathan Evans (United Kingdom, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Moldova, UEL), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania, are to make a fact-finding visit to Tirana from 17 to 19 April 2013.
11/04/2013 | Monitoring
Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD) and Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE), PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine, will visit the country from 14 to 16 April 2013, to assess the constitutional reform and the reform of the Criminal Code and the Prosecutor’s Office. They will also examine the situation of imprisoned former government members.
05/04/2013 | Monitoring
Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC) PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will undertake a fact-finding visit to the country from 8 to 11 April.
26/03/2013 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), have welcomed yesterday’s adoption, with broad bipartisan support, of the constitutional amendment that removed the possibility for the President to appoint a new government without the parliament’s approval.
22/03/2013 | Monitoring
“As rapporteur of the PACE on post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, I first wish to support the statement issued by our President Jean-Claude Mignon welcoming the PKK leader’s call for a truce. This is a crucial stage in the continuing peace process, begun in December 2012 by the Turkish authorities with Abdullah Öcalan. The end of all the violence is a precondition for any negotiations,” Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) said today.
20/03/2013 | Monitoring
Theodora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD) has been appointed as a co-rapporteur for PACE’s monitoring of the Russian Federation, to replace György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD), who leaves this post after three years. She will work alongside the existing co-rapporteur Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC). The Russian Federation is one of ten Council of Europe member states subject to the monitoring procedure, which assesses how far a country honours its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
06/03/2013 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Budapest from 25 to 27 February 2013, PACE co-rapporteurs for the opinion on the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary, Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE) and Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG), have expressed their concern about the recently proposed amendments to the Hungarian Constitution (the so-called fourth amendment).
22/02/2013 | Monitoring
Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG) and Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who have been appointed to assess the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary – following a motion signed by 24 members of the Assembly in January 2011 – will make a fact-finding visit to Budapest on 25-27 February 2013.
22/02/2013 | Monitoring
Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG) and Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who have been appointed to assess the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary – following a motion signed by 24 members of the Assembly in January 2011 – will make a fact-finding visit to Budapest on 25-27 February 2013.
08/02/2013 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs on Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), have condemned the outbreak of violence during today’s protest in front of the National Library in Tbilisi where President Saakashvili was scheduled to make his “State of the Union” address.