02/06/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Experts and industry figures have given testimony to a PACE hearing in London on the risks and opportunities of the Metaverse, including ideas for ensuring that virtual spaces can be kept safe for children, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence. The hearing, organised by PACE’s Committee on...
01/06/2023 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC) and Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Poland by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), have expressed their deep concerns about the adoption by the Polish Sejm of the Law on “the State Commission for...
01/06/2023 | Monitoring
Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 7 June 2023, to further assess the honouring...
31/05/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“I am deeply concerned by new reports that LGBTI people and activists defending their rights in Azerbaijan have again been targeted by police officers,” said Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the rights of LGBTI persons...
30/05/2023 | Monitoring
The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has declassified an information note on "The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Poland" following the fact-finding visit of the co...
30/05/2023 | Monitoring
The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has declassified an information note on "The honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia" following the fact-finding visit of the co-rapporteurs Claude Kern...
29/05/2023 | Elections
The second round of Türkiye’s presidential election was well run and gave voters the opportunity to choose between real political alternatives, but was characterized by increasingly inflammatory and discriminatory language during the campaign period. Media bias and ongoing restrictions to freedom...
26/05/2023 | Elections
A 17-member delegation of members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), will return to Türkiye from 26 to 29 May 2023 to observe the second round of the presidential election, alongside other international observers from the OSCE...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
“Now the #RoadToReykjavik is over and I wish to stress once again that this was an exciting, eventful, and – most importantly – successful journey. But when one road ends, another one begins. And now we must implement the decisions taken in Reykjavik, so that they bring meaningful results to...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
“With the Reykjavik declaration, the heads of State and Government have provided a new direction for the Council of Europe for the years to come, acknowledging its impact in fostering greater unity between its members States, and its central role in the evolving European multicultural...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
In the framework of the Standing Committee meeting in Riga, the ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, who served as the President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She was the first woman to hold the post in the country. Addressing the participants, Ms Vīķe...
26/05/2023 | Artificial Intelligence
Organised by the PACE Interparliamentary Co-operation and Project Support Division in co-operation with the Latvian delegation to PACE, a Round Table on ‘Artificial intelligence, freedom of expression and disinformation: challenges and risks for democracy’ took place today after the Standing...