09/07/2021 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Kyiv from 5 to 7 July 2021, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine have welcomed the marked progress made on reforms in many crucial areas in the country, but emphasised that considerable challenges remain. In general, they underscored that the many reforms...
09/07/2021 | President
PACE President Rik Daems will make a working visit to Rabat from 11 to 14 July, during which he will hold high-level meetings with Moroccan authorities. Meetings (to be confirmed) are scheduled with the Presidents of the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives, the Head of...
09/07/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), the rapporteur on political prisoners in Russia for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has commented on recent developments in the case of Alexey Pichugin: “I am gravely concerned at news reports from Russia that Alexey Pichugin...
07/07/2021 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), General Rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has today expressed his shock at the armed attack perpetrated on Tuesday 6 July against Peter R. de Vries, a well-known Dutch crime...
07/07/2021 | Monitoring
Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE) and Birgir Thórarinsson, (Iceland, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine are currently making a fact-finding visit to to this country to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. They have already...
07/07/2021 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden, SOC) and John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA), have welcomed the release of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an MP from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), following a ruling of the Constitutional Court on 1st...
06/07/2021 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“I strongly condemn the acts of violence which occurred in Georgia during Tbilisi Pride Week, targeting in particular the office of the organisers of this LGBTI rights awareness week, which was occupied and ransacked, and the journalists present at the planned starting point of the march which...
06/07/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Vladimir Vardanyan (Armenia, EPP/CD), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the abolition of the death penalty, has welcomed last Thursday’s announcement of the United States Attorney General Merrick Garland to temporarily halt federal executions...
06/07/2021 | Election observation
A 18-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Stefan Schennach (Autriche, SOC), will travel to the Republic of Moldova to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections on 11 July, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly...
06/07/2021 | Election observation
A 12-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE), will travel to Bulgaria from 10 to 12 July to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the...
05/07/2021 | Parliamentary support
As part of the project “Support for the development of the role of parliament in the consolidation of democracy in Morocco 2020-2023”, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is organising a conference on...
02/07/2021 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Russia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (Netherlands, EPP/CD), carried out a fact-finding visit to Moscow from 28 to 30 June 2021 in the framework of the preparation of their report to be submitted to the Assembly in 2022. They met the...