24/06/2024 | Session
The presidential and parliamentary elections in North Macedonia (24 April and 8 May 2024) were competitive and fundamental freedoms were respected ; extensive and pluralistic campaign helped voters to make an informed choice, but the process was marred by negative rhetoric with nationalistic...
24/06/2024 | Session
“As we continue to celebrate the Council of Europe’s 75th anniversary, I believe that the importance of its future success is understood by our member states and that despite all the complications there is an opportunity to build on this Organisation’s extraordinary legacy with a new layer of...
24/06/2024 | Session
The activities of the Standing Committee in Vilnius (24 May 2024), the lists of candidates for the posts of judges at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Andorra, Austria, Finland and Serbia; the 2024 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment; as well as the elections observation in North...
24/06/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today decided to amend its Rules of Procedure, recalling that it has regularly made such modifications in recent years in order “to accommodate changes in parliamentary practice, clarify the rules and procedures where their application or interpretation have raised...
23/06/2024 | Session
A joint debate on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, on the role of sanctions and on the erasure of cultural identity, are among the highlights of the summer plenary session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, taking place from 24 to 28 June...
22/04/2024 | Session
A debate on the application by Kosovo* for membership of the Council of Europe, and vote on a draft opinion, was a highlight of the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which took place in Strasbourg on 15-19 April 2024. There was also a joint debate on...
19/04/2024 | Session
PACE is calling for laws to protect children by reducing their exposure to harmful content online while not infringing on their opportunities to benefit from the internet. The Assembly, approving a resolution and recommendation on the basis of a report by Joseph O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), said...
18/04/2024 | Session
“Aggressive power politics must not prevail. Those challenging our common commitment to the rules base international order must be held to account,” was the message at the heart of His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein’s address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
18/04/2024 | Session
PACE, meeting today in plenary session, deplored the fact that the Council of Europe is now the only regional human rights system which has not yet formally recognised the right to a healthy environment. It recalled that at the 4th Council of Europe Summit in Reykjavik (16-17 May 2023), the Heads...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today said that our planet’s seas and oceans are “complex ecosystems that are vital for sustaining biodiversity and the livelihood of humans, as well as for regulating the global climate” and added that they could be our “allies” in mitigating...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has warmly welcomed the finalisation of the draft Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law which has been drawn up within the Council of Europe – but regretted that it “does not cover to...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, meeting this week in Strasbourg, held a current affairs debate today on responding to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and preventing further escalations in the Middle East following the recent Iranian attack against Israel. The debate was opened...