02/06/2021 | President
PACE President Rik Daems, ending a working visit to Hungary, has welcomed the priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and the opportunities it offers to further strengthen co-operation with the Parliamentary Assembly. The President visited...
31/05/2021 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“I am deeply concerned by the wave of antisemitic hate speech recently observed on major social media platforms, with the use of Holocaust imagery and Nazi glorification, as denounced by a new report of the World Jewish Congress. Violent acts are also being physically committed,” Momodou Malcolm...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) met by videoconference on Friday 28 May 2021. After the opening of the meeting by PACE President Rik Daems, who was present in Budapest, the parliamentarians held an exchange of views with Levente Magyar...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
Hungarian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Levente Magyar has pledged his country’s commitment to carrying out a successful Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in the next six months. Speaking at an exchange of views with PACE members during a hybrid meeting of the...
28/05/2021 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“The recent military clashes between the Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the State of Israel have had serious humanitarian consequences for the populations concerned, in particular civilians who perished in Gaza and in Israel”, said Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), Chairperson of the...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
PACE has welcomed the new four-year “strategic framework” agreed for the Council of Europe, as well as other reforms under way to enhance its effectiveness, and urged member States to strengthen their financial commitment to the Organisation. Approving a report by Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL), on...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
“We must continue to work to resume the Middle East peace process, which should lead to the ‘two peoples, two states’ solution. This option requires restoring what was the basis of the 1993 agreements, namely the mutual and reciprocal recognition between Palestinians and Israelis of the...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today by videoconference, deplores that nearly six years after the adoption of the first landmark resolution of the UN Security Council on youth, peace and security, little progress has been made and that the potential of young people as agents of peace actors...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee called on national parliaments to mobilize for the adoption and implementation of the United Nations Global Compacts for Migrants and Refugees by all Council of Europe member states. The parliamentarians are convinced "that by joining forces, parliaments can change the...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
“The first thing we should do is call for the immediate release of Roman Protasevich and the release of all other political prisoners in Belarus,” today said John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) opening a current affairs debate on 'The forced landing by the Belarusian authorities on 23 May of...
28/05/2021 | Standing Committee
The humanitarian situation of refugees and migrants is extremely serious in many countries in North Africa and the Middle East, which is a transit region towards Europe for these people, many of whom risk their lives on the Mediterranean Sea, the PACE Standing Committee said, meeting by...
25/05/2021 | 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 grave concern at the arrest and detention by the Belarusian authorities of Raman Pratasevich, co-founder of...