26/01/2015 | Session
“Auschwitz-Birkenau is a name which evokes over a million personal tragedies, but it is also a symbol,” Anne Brasseur said at a commemoration ceremony organised by the Parliamentary Assembly.
26/01/2015 | Session
Anne Brasseur has been re-elected President of the PACE for a new mandate of one year. "2014 was not a good year for the fundamental principles which we defend in Europe," she said in her opening speech.
26/01/2015 | Session
“The Committee of Ministers has decided to step up its action to promote tolerance and to fight against radicalisation leading to terrorism”, highlighted Didier Reynders, Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers in his address before PACE.
26/01/2015 | Session
According to PACE, the parliamentary elections of 26 October 2014 in Tunisia were “free, inclusive and transparent” and marked a “crucial stage” in the post-revolution transition of the country.
26/01/2015 | Session
PACE welcomed “the satisfactory conduct of the presidential election in Tunisia” (23 November and 21 December 2014) and the high voter turnout, marking “a new milestone in the democratic transition of the country”.
26/01/2015 | Session
According to PACE, the parliamentary elections of 30 November 2014 in the Republic of Moldova were free, “generally well organised” and “characterised by a wide choice of political alternatives”.
20/01/2015 | Session
An urgent debate following the Paris terrorist attacks, and debates on the protection of media freedom in Europe and on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, are among highlights of the session taking place in Strasbourg.
06/10/2014 | Session
Council of Europe member states should introduce and enforce laws banning the detention of children for immigration reasons. This is “a clear and unequivocal child rights violation”, PACE said.
03/10/2014 | Session
PACE has welcomed Albania’s “marked progress” in honouring its Council of Europe obligations and commitments, but regrets that many important reforms were delayed or negatively affected by the political crisis.
03/10/2014 | Session
The Assembly has asked member States to ensure that all breast cancer patients have effective access, wherever their place of residence, to quality-assured diagnosis and treatment.
02/10/2014 | Session
The situation of religious and ethnic communities in the Middle East in general and in Iraq and Syria in particular has “evolved from alarming to desperate”, the Parliamentary Assembly said today.
02/10/2014 | Session
“The summer of 2014 will go down as a particularly dark time for our continent,” Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told parliamentarians today, addressing the Assembly.