14/11/2019 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Two rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have welcomed the adoption by the EU Council of supplementary negotiating directives aimed at the swift resumption of negotiations with the Council of Europe on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights...
10/10/2019 | Parliamentary support
The Assembly is organising a fifth capacity-building seminar, in Strasbourg (Palais de l'Europe) on 14 and 15 October 2019, for staff members of national parliaments, after having held a fifth parliamentary conference on the role of national parliaments guaranteeing human rights in Europe, in...
06/09/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to make a working visit to Latvia on 9 and 10 September 2019, during which she will address a parliamentary conference in Riga on the key role of national parliaments in implementing the standards...
05/04/2019 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL), rapporteur for the Political Affairs Committee on the Role and mission of the Assembly: main challenges for the future, held a number of meetings in Brussels on 4 April with representatives of EU institutions and in particular with the President of the European...
25/03/2019 | Parliamentary support
The role of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in implementing judgments of the European Court of Human Rights was the focus of a capacity-building seminar on 21-22 March 2019 in Strasbourg – with parliamentary staff receiving advice on ways to check that new laws are “Convention-compliant...
14/12/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights is greatly concerned that Sharia law, including provisions clearly contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights, is applied officially or unofficially in several Council of Europe member states, in all or part of their territory. In...
24/04/2018 | Session
States may take preventive measures to protect the interests of society in time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation that exceed what is normally permitted under the European Convention on Human Rights, in accordance with the rules on derogations set out in its...
12/04/2018 | President
“As a constitutional instrument of the European public order, the Convention provides a solid legal foundation for European unity,” said PACE President Michele Nicoletti, speaking today at a conference in Copenhagen. He advocated the need for reaffirming the Court’s authority as “an independent...
24/01/2018 | Session
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has called for further reform of the European Convention on Human Rights – and urged member States to apply it more effectively at national level. Addressing PACE at its plenary session in Strasbourg, the Prime Minister said it was necessary to “reform...
24/01/2018 | Session
The Assembly voted in favour of drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer, following the proposals of the rapporteur Sabien Lahaye-Battheu (Belgium, ALDE). The parliamentarians believe that greater protection should be offered to lawyers who, in many Council of Europe member...
23/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Council of Europe member states are being urged to exercise “utmost caution” before derogating from – or setting aside – parts of the European Convention on Human Rights. Such derogations are possible under the Convention “in time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the...
12/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, on the basis of a report by Sabien Lahaye-Battheu (Belgium, ALDE), today unanimously voted in favour of drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer. The committee believes that greater protection should be offered to lawyers who, in...