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Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC), visit to Türkiye

PACE rapporteur urges European leaders to increase solidarity with earthquake victims in Türkiye and Syria

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...

Ankara, Turkey
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PACE observer delegation makes pre-electoral visit to Türkiye

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...

Georgia is at a crossroads on its path to European integration, say PACE monitors

04/04/2023 | Monitoring

“Georgia is at a crossroads on its path to European Integration,” said Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, in a statement issued at the end of a three-day visit to...

Paul Galles discusses the challenges faced by Belarusians in exile during a visit to Poland and Lithuania

Rapporteur discusses the challenges faced by Belarusians in exile during visit to Poland and Lithuania

04/04/2023 | Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

The challenges faced by Belarusians in exile was the focus of a fact-finding visit to Warsaw and Vilnius by Paul Galles (Luxembourg, EPP/CD), who is preparing a report on this topic for the Assembly. In Vilnius he made the first ever visit by a Council of Europe representative to Belarus...

Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections competitive and well-managed, but frequent changes to legal framework...

03/04/2023 | Election observation

Bulgaria’s 2 April early parliamentary elections were competitive and well-managed but, while the legal framework is adequate for holding democratic elections, frequent changes erode trust, undercut efficiency and create challenges to making timely preparations, international observers said in a...

Presidential Election Montenegro 2023

Montenegro’s presidential runoff competitive and well run despite harsh rhetoric and legal uncertainties...

03/04/2023 | Election observation

The second round of Montenegro’s presidential election was competitive and as in the first round candidates were able to campaign freely with fundamental freedoms respected, but the tone was increasingly negative and the gaps in the legal framework became ever more apparent, international...

PACE President Tiny Kox - Bucha Conference

Crimes in Ukraine: ‘justice will be done and delivered, whatever it takes'

31/03/2023 | President

PACE President Tiny Kox has pledged that the Parliamentary Assembly will do everything in its power to ensure accountability for the crimes committed during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, declaring: “Justice will be done and delivered, whatever it takes.” Speaking by teleconference at the...

Sofia, Bulgaria

PACE to observe the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria

29/03/2023 | Election observation

A 21-member delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL), will travel to Bulgaria from 31 March to 3 April 2023 to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections on 2 April, alongside observers from the OSCE’s Office for...

Albania

PACE seminar on access to historic documents to take place in Tirana

28/03/2023 | Parliamentary Support

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) organised a seminar on access to historic documents at the Albanian Parliament in Tirana on 31 March 2023. The seminar, organised by PACE in co-operation with the Parliament of Albania, brought together parliamentarians, experts or...

PACE monitors make fact-finding visit to Georgia

24/03/2023 | Monitoring

Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 27 to 29 March 2023. The visit will focus on recent developments...

Metaverse hearing

The risks and opportunities of the Metaverse

23/03/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

“’I was there!’... The metaverse has what we might call ’near adjacent perceptual proximity’. We know that virtual reality is not real, but we experience it directly all the same, and we tend to respond, both bodily and psychologically, as though it were real,” said Verity McIntosh of the British...

Meeting at the National Assembly

War against Ukraine and the coming Summit the focus of PACE President’s working visit to France

23/03/2023 | President

Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), paid a working visit to France on 22 March 2023, during which he discussed the current challenges linked to the war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and its consequences, as well as...