01/07/2024 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly Theodoros Rousopoulos and the First Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko met today in the framework of the 3rd meeting of the High-level Dialogue on “Good democratic governance in Ukraine: achievements, challenges and the way forward...
27/06/2024 | Session
Emphasising the significance of "a people-centred approach in policy making in times of crisis", PACE today called on EU member States to prolong the duration of the initially agreed temporary protection or to open new avenues "for allowing a regular and legally secure presence of peoples of...
27/06/2024 | Session
“The situation of the children of Ukraine, deprived of their childhood by a war and, even more tragic, who have been uprooted and forcibly separated from their homeland, is of primary importance to us,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, on the occasion of the launching of the...
14/06/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos participated this week in the Ukraine Recovery 2024 Conference, organised under the theme: “United for defence, united for recovery, stronger together”. The conference followed an annual series of high-level political events dedicated to the rapid recovery and...
13/06/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
An Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau travelled to Geneva to meet several international organisations (UNICEF, UNHCR, OHCHR) on 13 June 2024 to discuss the situation of refugee, displaced and deported children of Ukraine. On this occasion, the President of the Assembly had a bilateral meeting with...
04/06/2024 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the international community has imposed sanctions to counter this aggression and hold Russia accountable for its violations of international law. PACE’s Political Affairs and Democracy Committee condemned...
31/05/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Culture Committee has condemned the systematic erasure of Ukrainian cultural identity by the Russian Federation following the 2014 occupation of Crimea and parts of Donbas and the 2022 full-scale invasion. The parliamentarians highlighted extensive policies of "Russification", historical...
30/05/2024 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Since the start of Russia's war of aggression on 24 February 2022, millions of Ukrainians have left their homes to seek refuge. According to the UNHCR, two years later more than 5.9 million Ukrainian citizens have taken refuge in Europe, and more than 500,000 have moved outside Europe. There are...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
“The Council of Europe is celebrating its 75th anniversary. We can be proud of its principled performance when faced with an unprecedented ethical choice. It is one of the very few organisations that expelled the aggressor state right after the start of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression...
23/05/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A special tribunal, created by agreement between the Council of Europe and Ukraine and supported by an enlarged partial agreement open to non-member States and other international organisations, is now “the best feasible option, in terms of legal basis and political legitimacy” for trying Russia...
22/05/2024 | Monitoring
Following the publication of the Venice Commission’s urgent opinion on the law on transparency of foreign influence, the PACE co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have urged the Georgian authorities to repeal this law. “Our Georgian...
17/05/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a public hearing marking the 90th anniversary of Ukraine's Holodomor, or Great Famine, which was livestreamed in English on Tuesday 21 May 2024. The Holodomor was a mass famine in grain-growing areas of the country which began in the...