24/04/2023 | Session
An urgent debate on "The situation of Ukrainian civilians, including children, forcibly displaced or transferred to the Russian Federation or Ukrainian territories under the de facto control of the Russian Federation", with the online intervention of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, was one...
24/04/2023 | Session
“The protection of human rights in Europe has suffered serious setbacks in 2022,” said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, presenting her Annual Report today before the Parliamentary Assembly. The report largely focuses on the atrocities committed by the Russian...
24/04/2023 | Session
The PACE contribution to a fourth Council of Europe Summit; the 2023 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize; the activities of the Standing Committee in The Hague (3 March 2023); as well as the observation of the presidential elections in Montenegro and the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria were among...
24/04/2023 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting on the margin of the Assembly’s plenary session in Strasbourg, has adopted the following declaration: “On 6 February 2023, massive earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, killing...
24/04/2023 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has answered parliamentarians’ questions at the PACE Spring session’s Question Time. During a lively Q & A session, Marija Pejčinović Burić underlined the importance of the Fourth Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Reykjavik...
21/04/2023 | President
Following the sentencing of Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison, the PACE President and leaders of the PACE political groups will express their solidarity with him, as well as other political prisoners, on Monday 24 April 2023 at 12.30 p.m. in the area in front of...
17/04/2023 | Monitoring
Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Stéphanie Krisper (Austria, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic review of the Netherlands, will carry out a fact-finding visit to the country on 18 and 19 April 2023 to assess how far it is...
17/04/2023 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE’s Rapporteur on the crisis facing Afghan refugees Birgir Thórarinsson (Iceland, EPP/CD), ending a three-day visit to Türkiye (12-14 April 2023), has praised the country’s “commendable efforts” to provide access to services to registered refugees, but noted that several challenges remain. He...
14/04/2023 | Election observation
A pre-electoral delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) visited Ankara to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in Türkiye on 14 May 2023. During two days of meetings, the delegation met a...
14/04/2023 | President
The Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić have issued the following statement: “We...
11/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Ending a three-day visit to Türkiye, Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC), PACE’s rapporteur on political strategies to prevent, prepare for, and face the consequences of natural disasters, has urged European political leaders to intensify solidarity with the victims: “We must stand by the people of...
11/04/2023 | Election observation
A six-member, cross-party delegation* of observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), is making a pre-electoral visit to Türkiye on 12-13 April 2023 to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the early...