21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Friday 21 November 2025. On 14 November 2025 the Republic of Moldova began...
21/11/2025 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Government of Iceland, has issued a call for nominations for the 2026 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment. The deadline for submitting nominations for this third edition of the Prize is 27 March 2026. Launched in...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau today, decided to amend the code of conduct for PACE members (contained in Appendix II to the Rules of Procedure) in order to have transparent and clear processes for identifying and managing conflicts of interest. The establishment of an “adequate...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
In order to give effect to Resolution 2394 (2021) on “Gender representation in the Parliamentary Assembly”, the PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau today, emphasised the need for PACE to amend its provisions relating to gender representation. Adopting a resolution based on a report by...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
At its meeting in Chisinau today, the PACE Standing Committee emphasised the importance of the Assembly’s members' active commitment at a time when multilateralism and democracy are under strain. Participation lends legitimacy to the Assembly's decisions; it is not merely a procedural formality...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
In an address to the parliamentarians at the opening of the Standing Committee’s meeting in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi – and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers – set out the three main priorities of the six...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
The President of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Grosu, welcoming PACE’s Standing Committee to Chisinau, underlined the significance of Moldova taking on the Presidency at a moment of acute geopolitical tension. “Today, as we take over the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
Meeting today in Chisinau, the PACE Standing Committee addressed key issues related to Moldova’s electoral and political environment during a debate on the Assembly’s observation of the 28 September 2025 parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova. The head of PACE’s observer delegation...
21/11/2025 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee, meeting in Chisinau, held a current affairs debate on “Citizens’ mobilisation in the defence of human rights and democracy: recent developments in Latvia”, focusing on the unprecedented public mobilisation that followed the attempt to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul...
20/11/2025 | Election observation
PACE’s Committee on the New Democratic Pact heard at first hand from the Republic of Moldova’s top election official how the country had managed to resist foreign interference during recent elections, and held an exchange of views with Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset on the Pact...
19/11/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"The stigmatisation of transgender persons in political discourse, holding them responsible for many ills, is not only discriminatory but also contributes to an increase in transphobia and transphobic violence around the world. Honouring the memory of transgender victims of transphobic crimes is...
19/11/2025 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Georgia from 10 to 12 November 2025, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Cudic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), urged the authorities to fully implement the...