25/09/2019 | Monitoring
PACE monitors welcome steps to make the process of selecting Supreme Court judges more transparent, but express serious concern at how the High Council of Justice prepared the list of candidates.
23/09/2019 | Monitoring
“Montenegro is at a turning point. It must continue on the right path,” said Ionut-Marian Stroe and Anne Mulder, co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with Montenegro, following their visit to Podgorica.
13/09/2019 | Monitoring
Titus Corlatean and Claude Kern, PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 17 to 18 September.
12/09/2019 | Monitoring
The committee has commended the authorities of North Macedonia for the progress made since 2013 as part of the post-monitoring dialogue, and set out a list of five areas it will further assess in its next report.
10/09/2019 | Monitoring
Given the polarized context in the Republic of Moldova and the unprecedented political and constitutional crisis of June 2019, the committee welcomed the resilience demonstrated by the Moldovan people and the peaceful transition of power.
09/09/2019 | Monitoring
Ionut-Marian Stroe and Anne Mulder will make a fact-finding visit to Montenegro, during which they will discuss the implementation of the Assembly's latest resolution on the honouring of obligations by the country.
04/09/2019 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson and Pieter Omtzigt, PACE co-rapporteurs on “The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland”, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw on 5-6 September.
26/08/2019 | Monitoring
The so-called ‘presidential elections’ in the Georgian region of Abkhazia on 25 August are neither legal nor legitimate, say PACE monitors of Georgia, Titus Corlatean and Claude Kern, in a statement.
30/07/2019 | Monitoring
Nigel Evans and Thomas Hammarberg, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, welcomed the decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to uphold the “Academics for Peace’s” freedom of expression.
26/07/2019 | Monitoring
Egidijus Vareikis and Maryvonne Blondin, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Moldova, welcomed the steps taken to free state institutions from external and business influence, calling for their strengthening.
18/07/2019 | Monitoring
Egidijus Vareikis and Maryvonne Blondin, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 21 to 23 July.
02/07/2019 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach, co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 4 to 6 July, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.