27/01/2025 | Session
“I wish to start by expressing my gratitude for re-electing me as President of this Assembly for a second term. I consider my re-election as a vote of confidence and approval of the work I have been doing since becoming PACE President in January 2024,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said...
27/01/2025 | Session
In adopting a resolution today, based on a report by Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD) – which takes stock of the PACE monitoring activities covering the period from January to December 2024 and makes a series of assessments of the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in...
27/01/2025 | Session
“We are relational beings and institutions, and as such, we are both responsible and accountable for one another. We are social beings, and as such, we share the world and the planet's resources. In other words, we live in a global community, and as such, we share common values which transcend...
27/01/2025 | Session
The conclusions of the report presented today by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE) on the observation of the parliamentary elections in Georgia on 26 October 2024 “raise concerns about the correctness of the election results, namely whether the election results truly reflect the will of the voters...
27/01/2025 | Session
The lists of candidates for the posts of judges at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Andorra, Armenia, and Slovenia; the observation of the recent elections in the Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, and Georgia, and the observation of the upcoming elections to the Assembly of Kosovo...
27/01/2025 | Session
In a communication to the Parliamentary Assembly, the Luxembourg Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Xavier Bettel, presented the priorities of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers. He reiterated Luxembourg’s commitment to continued support for Ukraine as one of the...
24/01/2025 | Session
A ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp will be held on Wednesday 29 January from 12:00 to 13:00 in the Chamber of the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg, as part of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
04/10/2024 | Session
Expressing its concern at the lack of consistency in the legislation of member states aimed at combating the smuggling of migrants, PACE today proposed that the Council of Europe draw up an instrument on the smuggling of migrants “which ensures as much consistency as possible in the understanding...
04/10/2024 | Session
Noting that the metaverse represents a new frontier for digital technology, the Parliamentary Assembly is nevertheless concerned that governance and legislation struggle to keep pace with technological innovation, and that questions of accountability for criminal behaviour in the metaverse...
03/10/2024 | Session
Ninety years on from the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide by artificial famine which resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, Ukraine again faces the threat of genocide, PACE has declared, urging all governments to help the people of Ukraine "fight off the ongoing genocidal...
03/10/2024 | Session
Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today, Timcho Mucunski, North Macedonia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, reaffirmed his country's steadfast dedication to European values, human rights, and the rule of law. Minister Mucunski emphasised that...
03/10/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today decided to refer the report on “Protecting the human rights and improving the lives of sex workers and victims of sexual exploitation” back to the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, following the proposal of the Chair of the Committee on Equality...