04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Laws on nationality in Cyprus, Norway, Romania and Switzerland “contain insufficient or no safeguards against childhood statelessness, in breach of regional and international obligations,” according to the Standing Committee.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
The Parliamentary Assembly is urging Europe’s governments to increase support for libraries and museums as “digital hubs” for local communities, and fresh “strategic thinking” on how to renew their role.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
Some provisions of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure need to be clarified, supplemented or reviewed in order, PACE Standing Committee said today during its meeting in Paris.
04/03/2016 | Standing Committee
PACE has given its green light to a plan to open up the ground-breaking European Landscape Convention to countries worldwide, approving today an opinion based on a report by Stefan Schennach.
29/02/2016 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee will meet in Paris on Friday 4 March to discuss in particular the need to eradicate statelessness of children, forced migration as a new challenge and libraries and museums of Europe.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
Anne Brasseur today opened a meeting of the Standing Committee in Sofia by calling for a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims of the "barbaric" terrorist attacks against France and Russia earlier this month.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
“We have joined our voice of solidarity the moment we have learned of the terror attacks and of the tragedy that befell Paris and its citizens”, Tseska Tsacheva today said at the opening of the Standing Committee meeting in Sofia.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE has called for a Council of Europe Summit of Heads of State and Government so that member States can reaffirm, at the highest political level, “their commitment to the common values and principles upheld by the Organisation”.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
The parliamentary elections of 4 October in Kyrgyzstan were competitive and offered voters a wide choice; voters were able to choose freely from among a large number of candidates. Voting was also transparent.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
The presidential election of 11 October 2015 showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in honouring its commitment to hold democratic elections.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
“Let's combat international terrorism while protecting our Council of Europe standards and values. These two elements are not contradictory – they should always go together,” said Tiny Kox today at the opening of a current affairs debate.
27/11/2015 | Standing Committee
The credentials of the new United Kingdom delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly were challenged on procedural grounds at the opening of PACE’s Standing Committee meeting today in Sofia.