10/10/2022 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Ukrainian diaspora in Alsace, the second largest in France, saw its role and responsibilities change after the 24 February 2022 when Russia's aggression against Ukraine began. In an exchange of views held with the Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration, Iryna Petrovska, Vice-President of...
09/10/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty (10 October), PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty Vladimir Vardanyan (Armenia, EPP/CD) made the following statement: "In this year’s World Day against the Death Penalty, we focus on capital punishment and the...
05/10/2022 | President
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, and Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, have joined Council of Europe leaders today in welcoming the publication of a report on the future of the Council of Europe by a High-Level Reflection Group chaired by Ireland’s former...
04/10/2022 | Women@PACE
At its next meeting in the margins of the PACE plenary session, the informal ‘Women@PACE’ group will hold an exchange of views on “Barriers in breast cancer detection and treatment”. Professor Carole Mathelin – an obstetrician-gynaecologist, Vice-Chairperson of the Senologic International Society...
03/10/2022 | Election observation
Bulgaria’s 2 October early parliamentary elections were competitive and fundamental freedoms were generally respected, although allegations of vote-buying and pressure on voters negatively affected parts of the process, international observers said in a statement today. Despite a late start to...
03/10/2022 | Election observation
The general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were competitive and overall well organised with fundamental freedoms respected during the campaign. However, failed reform efforts, a widespread mistrust in public institutions, and ethnically divisive rhetoric continued to mark the election...
30/09/2022 | President
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Simon Coveney, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have made the following...
30/09/2022 | Parliamentary support
A delegation of the Chamber of Councillors of the Parliament of Morocco, led by its Secretary General EL Assad Zerouali and composed of senior officials, is to take part in an information seminar on the work of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 3 and 4 October 2022. The Parliament of Morocco...
29/09/2022 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has urged states to “vehemently counter any fake news” about the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe’s gold standard legal instrument for combating violence against women and domestic violence. Speaking at a conference of Council of Europe Justice Ministers in...
27/09/2022 | Election observation
A 21-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 30 September to 3 October to observe the conduct of the general elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary...
24/09/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
On 24 September, the city of İzmir (Türkiye) held a ceremony to celebrate the official award of the Europe Prize 2022, in the agora of the ancient city of Smyrna and in the presence of a large public and local, regional and national representatives. On this occasion, Selin Sayek Böke, Chairperson...
22/09/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Insofar as new technologies and the Covid-19 pandemic have radically transformed the world of work, the Social Affairs Committee considers it essential to increase flexibility in the organisation of work, in order to serve the new needs of workers, employers and the labour markets. The committee...