01/04/2022 | President
“I am deeply worried by the worsening political situation in Tunisia,” said PACE President Tiny Kox in a statement today. “With the President’s decision to dissolve Parliament, which has been suspended since July 2021, the standoff between Tunisian institutions has now reached a new and dangerous...
01/04/2022 | Women@PACE
The newly-formed Women@PACE group is organising a special consignment of flak jackets for women in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, as a gesture of solidarity with female colleagues who continue to carry out their democratic duties while under potential military attack. Members of...
01/04/2022 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Long-term human investment in culture and education must be given equal priority with investment in the economy, infrastructure, security and all other areas seen as crucial to Europe’s global economic competitiveness and stability”, today said Roberto Rampi (Italy, SOC), Vice-Chairman of PACE...
31/03/2022 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on media freedom and the protection of journalists, today expressed his serious concerns about the risk of closure of the Bosnia-Herzegovina public service broadcaster (BHRT). The...
29/03/2022 | Election observation
A 19-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Aleksander Pociej (Poland, EPP/CD), will travel to Serbia from 1 to 4 April 2022 to observe the conduct of the presidential and early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE...
29/03/2022 | Parliamentary support
In the framework of the project "Support to the development of the role of the Parliament in consolidating democracy in Morocco 2020-2023", financed by the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe, the Chamber of Councillors of the Kingdom of Morocco and the Parliamentary Assembly...
29/03/2022 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of PACE has welcomed the “continuous and marked progress” made by Georgia in honouring its Council of Europe membership obligations and commitments since 2014, but added that a number of shortcomings and concerns remain. Approving a draft resolution today, based on a...
25/03/2022 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Turkey from 21 to 24 March as co-rapporteurs, PACE monitors John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) have welcomed the open and frank dialogue with the Turkish authorities when discussing the Assembly’s latest resolutions, including Resolution...
24/03/2022 | Session
A general policy debate on the consequences of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine will be at the centre of the spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in hybrid format from 25 to 28 April 2022. Sergio Mattarella, President...
23/03/2022 | President
“The consequences of the Russian Federation’s aggression on Ukraine will last for decades, be it in terms of reconstruction needs, or for the safe and sustainable return of refugees, to name but a few challenges […]. At the same time, we must envisage initiatives to support and engage with human...
22/03/2022 | Parliamentary support
In the framework of the project "Support to the development of the role of the Parliament in consolidating democracy in Morocco 2020-2023", the Chamber of Representatives of the Kingdom of Morocco and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) organise the round table "The reform...
22/03/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Jacques Maire (France, ALDE), PACE rapporteur on the arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny, has reacted to today's sentencing of Mr Navalny to nine years in prison for 'fraud' and 'offending a court'. “I deplore this new conviction of Mr Navalny, who has been imprisoned for more than a year on...