27/09/2026 | Children of Ukraine
Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, ECPA), Chairperson of the Parliamentary Network on the situation of the children of Ukraine, made the following statement : “Russian forces have once again targeted civilian infrastructure, this time striking a maternity hospital in Kyiv. During the overnight attack on 23...
25/09/2026 | Session
Addresses by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, the President of the Portuguese Republic António José Martins Seguro and Germany’s Foreign Affairs Minister Johann Wadephul are among highlights of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) taking place in...
25/09/2026 | President
Petra Bayr, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement on the eve of the European Day of Languages (26 September 2026), during a visit to the 2026 Graz Language Festival and the European Centre for Modern Languages: ‘“Languages unite...
25/09/2026 | Parliamentary Alliance for Good Governance and Integrity in Sport
Agnes Prammer (Austria, SOC), Chairperson of the Parliamentary Alliance on Good Governance and Integrity in Sport, made today the following statement on European School Sport Day: “On European School Sport Day, we are reminded that access to sport is an essential part of a child’s development and...
25/09/2026 | Monitoring
Ending a three-day visit to Bratislava, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of the Slovak Republic, Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), have expressed their concern at signs of democratic regression, and...
24/09/2026 | Elections
Morocco’s parliamentary elections offered voters a broad political choice and voting was efficiently administered, a PACE observer delegation said today. Yet turnout was only 38.02% of registered voters – equivalent to fewer than one in four Moroccans of voting age. Together with the significant...
24/09/2026 | Elections
A 20-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Jone Blikra (Norway, SOC), will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2 to 5 October to observe the conduct of the general elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, European...
22/09/2026 | President
A parliamentary round table on the topic Fake ‘elections’ in Russia: what next? will take place at 1 p.m. on Monday 28 September, on the margins of the Assembly’s Autumn plenary session in Strasbourg, livestreamed via the Assembly’s YouTube channel. The event is organised by the PACE Platform for...
18/09/2026 | President
The following statement was issued today by the Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): “It is already clear: the so-called ‘elections’ to the State Duma beginning today will not meet international democratic standards...
18/09/2026 | Elections
A pre-electoral delegation* from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) visited Bosnia and Herzegovina from 15 to 17 September 2026 to assess the electoral and political environment ahead of the general elections scheduled for 4 October 2026. The delegation met with a broad...
17/09/2026 | President
“I welcome yesterday’s important judgment by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the case of Hashim Thaçi and his co-defendants, who have all been convicted at first instance of war crimes including arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder committed during the Kosovo* conflict...
17/09/2026 | Children of Ukraine
Parliamentarians and international officials gathered in Paris on Wednesday 16 September to highlight the need to step up actions to secure the safe return of forcibly transferred and deported Ukrainian children and ensure accountability for the perpetrators of the crimes committed against them...