09/03/2023 | Monitoring
Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw from 13 to 15 March. This visit will mainly focus on judicial reforms, the independence of the...
08/03/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have expressed their deep concern at the adoption at first reading by the Georgian Parliament of the controversial law on...
24/02/2023 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Armenia on 17-19th of February to assess the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC...
15/02/2023 | Monitoring
Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 17 to 20 February 2023. In Yerevan, Mr...
13/02/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), have expressed profound concern over the continuing detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known...
31/01/2023 | Monitoring
In a declassified information note, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee for Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/AD) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), confirmed their readiness to continue a constructive dialogue with the Turkish authorities following their visit to the country...
27/01/2023 | Monitoring
Fiona O'Loughlin (Ireland, ALDE) and Yelizaveta Yasko (Ukraine, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic review on France, carried out a fact-finding visit to Paris on 30-31 January 2023, to assess the honouring of membership...
13/01/2023 | Monitoring
Following a meeting with Osman Kavala at the Silivri prison today, the PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), have again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human...
11/01/2023 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Türkiye John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 12-13 January 2023 to discuss the latest developments in relation to the case of Osman Kavala. In Ankara, the co-rapporteurs are...
16/12/2022 | Monitoring
“We are deeply concerned by the interruption of freedom of movement in the Lachin corridor, causing considerable hardship to the population,” the four co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan and Armenia have declared in a joint...
15/12/2022 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee today adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2022 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 are currently subject to the...
15/12/2022 | Monitoring
PACE’s Monitoring Committee has welcomed the far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Republic of Moldova to consolidate its democratic institutions, in spite of “the difficulty and challenges” involved. Approving a draft resolution based on a report by Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and...