11/06/2021 | President
PACE President Rik Daems, addressing Council of Europe media ministers by teleconference, has again called for a transparent and clearly defined legal and ethical framework for Artificial Intelligence based on principles already spelled out by the Assembly. “We need to regulate AI before AI...
11/06/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Child labour is not a thing of the past, but a reality for millions of children. Child labour harms children’s health, development, and education. It deprives children of their childhood and of equal opportunities in future life. On the eve of the World Day Against Child Labour (12 June) we call...
11/06/2021 | Election observation
A pre-electoral delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) visited Chişinău on 10 and 11 June to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the early parliamentary elections to be held on 11 July 2021. The visit took place in a deeply polarised...
09/06/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“National and international authorities considering the introduction of ‘Covid pass’ systems should bear in mind the basic standards of human rights and the rule of law as set out in the report by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)," said...
09/06/2021 | Election observation
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), is to make a pre-electoral visit to the Republic of Moldova on 9-11 June 2021 to assess the election preparations and campaign ahead of the 11th July parliamentary...
08/06/2021 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Tbilisi from 1 to 3 June 2021, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), have welcomed the political agreement mediated by European Council...
07/06/2021 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“If we really want to integrate the protection of human rights in how we deal with the migration crisis, we need to look at a diversity of measures, a differentiation of data by gender as regards migrants, as well as a differentiation of voices and representation,” said Petra Stienen (Netherlands...
07/06/2021 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I welcome the strong support expressed by G7 Finance Ministers on 4-5 June in London for the introduction of a minimum corporate tax and a fair distribution of the taxation of the profits of large multinationals, especially the big digital companies. This is a major break in the race to the...
07/06/2021 | Monitoring
Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/DC) and Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Montenegro, issued the following statement today: “On 27 May, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the amendments to...
04/06/2021 | President
PACE President Rik Daems, marking World Environment Day (5 June 2021), has issued an urgent appeal for parliaments and governments to act with “force and conviction” to create an explicit legal right to a healthy environment in order to help halt the drastic degradation of ecosystems worldwide...
03/06/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Alexandra Louis (France, ALDE), Rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on follow-up to Resolution 2362 (2021) on Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States, has expressed great concern at the arrest of Russian activist Andrei Pivovarov at St...
03/06/2021 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Politicians need a particularly high level of protection of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, both in parliament and when speaking to their constituents, but that freedom of speech is not unlimited,” today said PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, adding that hate speech...