22/05/2024 | Monitoring
Following the publication of the Venice Commission’s urgent opinion on the law on transparency of foreign influence, the PACE co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have urged the Georgian authorities to repeal this law. “Our Georgian...
17/05/2024 | Monitoring
Following a domestic court judgment delivered yesterday in the so-called Kobane case, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Türkiye, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Jill Mortimer (United Kingdom, EC/DA), made the following statement: “We are dismayed at yesterday’s verdict of the...
30/04/2024 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights...
30/04/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have called on the Georgian Parliament to ensure that any recommendations made by the Venice Commission concerning the draft law on the “Transparency of Foreign Influence” are taken into...
04/04/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), today expressed their deep concern at the reintroduction of the draft law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” by the Georgian ruling party. “The reintroduction of this so-called...
08/03/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE Monitoring Committee, meeting in Paris on 6 March, has proposed closing the monitoring procedure in respect of Albania and engaging in a post-monitoring dialogue with the country, on the basis of the report prepared by Ionuţ-Marian Stroe (Romania, EPP/CD). It welcomed the easing of the...
06/03/2024 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting today in Paris, proposed closing the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and following the developments in the country with regard to the rule of law, democracy and human rights in the framework of its periodic reviews. By adopting the report by Thórhildur...
12/02/2024 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Chișinău and Comrat from 4 to 7 February 2024, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD), have welcomed continued progress on the far-reaching reforms of...
04/12/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has urged Council of Europe member states to respect the rulings of the Strasbourg Court, boost the Council of Europe’s “early warning capacity” and develop a more flexible, credible and coherent “toolkit” of measures for putting pressure on states that do not respect...
04/12/2023 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting today in Rome, has adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2023 and making a series of assessments of the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of countries that were subject...
27/11/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Hungary by PACE, Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), have made the following statement: “We were informed that the Hungarian Parliament has started to examine a bill on the ‘defence of national sovereignty’, as well as...
20/11/2023 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), one of the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 20-21 November, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe, since the adoption of PACE Resolution...