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Ending a fact-finding visit, PACE monitors welcome North Macedonia’s progress in meeting Council of Europe...

30/04/2025 | Monitoring

Following a fact-finding visit to Skopje from 23 to 25 April 2025, Sibel Arslan (Switzerland, SOC) and Joseph O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia, have welcomed the progress made...

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Post-monitoring visit of PACE rapporteurs to North Macedonia

17/04/2025 | Monitoring

Sibel Arslan (Switzerland, SOC) and Joseph O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia, will make a fact-finding visit to Skopje from 23 to 25 April. Discussions will mainly focus on...

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PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs express concern about the escalation of tensions in Serbia

20/03/2025 | Monitoring

PACE’s Rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the massive protest in Belgrade of 15 March 2025: "We are very concerned about the escalation of tensions in the country, which led...

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PACE monitors urge dialogue to defuse tensions in Serbia

20/02/2025 | Monitoring

The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the situation in the country: "We are very concerned about the political climate in Serbia, which has recently been marked by a...

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PACE rapporteurs express deep concern at the sentencing of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev in Azerbaijan

16/01/2025 | Monitoring

PACE's co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), and the General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have expressed deep concern at the recent sentencing of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known Azerbaijani civil...

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PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs to visit Georgia from 14 to 16 January

10/01/2025 | Monitoring

As part of the ongoing monitoring procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), will carry out a fact-finding mission to Tbilisi from 14 to 16 January 2025. The aim of the...

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PACE monitor expresses deep concern at the surveillance of Serbian journalists and activists

23/12/2024 | Monitoring

PACE’s Rapporteur for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC), has today expressed his concern at recent revelations about the surveillance of Serbian journalists and activists. "I am deeply dismayed at recent findings by Amnesty International and the Balkan Investigative Reporting...

PACE monitors express concern at the arrest of opposition leaders and police brutality against journalists...

10/12/2024 | Monitoring

The PACE monitoring rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) today expressed their deep concern about the arrests and pretrial detentions of opposition and protests leaders as well as the raiding of their offices by the police, reportedly on...

Warsaw / Poland

PACE monitor, ending visit: much-needed rule of law reforms in Poland should comply with European standards

26/11/2024 | Monitoring

Ending a fact-finding visit to Warsaw, PACE co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Poland Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC) has strongly welcomed the reforms initiated by the authorities to ensure the independence of the judiciary in Poland and to implement the judgements of the European Court of Human...

PACE Azerbaijan monitor urges medical treatment for Anar Mammadli and Gubad Ibadoghlu

15/11/2024 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee for Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), has made the following statement on the worsening health situation of civil society activists Anar Mammadli and Gubad Ibadoghlu: “I am deeply concerned about the health situation of human rights...

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PACE monitors to visit Hungary

15/11/2024 | Monitoring

Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the honouring of Council of Europe obligations and commitments by Hungary, are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November. Hungary is one of ten countries currently subject to the full...

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PACE monitor to visit Poland

15/11/2024 | Monitoring

Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC), co-rapporteur for the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Poland, is to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November to look at recent judicial reforms, polarisation and the functioning of the country’s system of checks and...