22/01/2004 | News
Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will address the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during its winter session in Strasbourg (26-30 January 2004). Parliamentarians are due to debate the situations in both countries. Other highlights of the session include debates on euthanasia, public service broadcasting, the functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan and Armenia’s honouring of its obligations and commitments.
20/01/2004 | News
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Dutch Minister of Justice Piet-Hein Donner addressed members of parliament from the Council of Europe, in Paris, at a conference organised by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population and the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly. The conference, on the theme ''migration and integration: a challenge for Europe?'', looked at such issues as demographic trends and migration flows, controlling illegal immigration while respecting human rights and the right of asylum, migration and development and integration or sectarianism.