25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 of the Assembly’s members, met in Reykjavik on Friday 25 November 2022. After the opening of the meeting by PACE President Tiny Kox, Alþingi Speaker Birgir Ármannsson gave a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Council of Europe member States should recommit to the values, principles and standards of the Organisation at the highest political level, PACE has said – pointing out that these are more relevant than ever when they are being “openly challenged”. In a resolution based on a report by Laima...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
“Today, we realise more than ever how important it is to stand united in our fight for a just and fair Europe, where democracy, human rights and the rule of law prevail. In addressing and resolving pressing global challenges, multilateralism is key. Together we must strongly advocate for the...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee welcomed the efforts of the Jordanian Parliament in striving to comply with the political commitments of a partner for democracy, six years after obtaining this status with PACE, “despite the internal and external challenges the country is facing”. Adopting a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting today in Reykjavik, is worried about the shortages of medical supplies that have increased dramatically before, during and since the Covid-19 pandemic, due to stockpiling, restrictions on exports, closed borders, and lockdowns. The parliamentarians denounced a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Reykjavik, underlined the importance of ensuring that the key institutions and mechanisms of democracy function properly during health emergencies, with particular attention to parliaments, elections, local democracy and civil society organisations...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Laws aimed at combating Covid “might be used to further restrict the rights and fundamental freedoms of civil society actors”, PACE has warned. Approving a resolution based on the report by Margreet De Boer (Netherlands, SOC), the Assembly said Covid restrictions had had a “deleterious effect” on...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Europe can learn “useful lessons” from the experience of prisons during the Covid pandemic, continuing to use alternatives to detention to reduce the prison population and ease overcrowding, according to PACE. In a resolution based on a report by Givi Mikanadze (Georgia, SOC), the Assembly said...
25/11/2022 | [email protected]
In the framework of the Standing Committee meeting in Reykjavik, the ‘[email protected]’ group organised a working breakfast together with all women members of the Icelandic Parliament. After opening remarks by [email protected] Bureau member Petra Stienen, the Prime Minister of Iceland and Minister for...
25/11/2022 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Sub-Committee on External Relations will visit the United Nations from 28 to 30 November on the occasion of the 77th Session of the General Assembly. Meetings are scheduled notably with Csaba Kőrösi, President of the General Assembly, Achim Steiner, Under-Secretary-General, Administrator of...
24/11/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Parliamentarians must join with international and civil society organisations to reject the backlash and backsliding that are stopping progress in ending gender-based violence, which affects women and girls around the world the most,” said PACE’s General Rapporteur on Violence against Women and...
23/11/2022 | Parliamentary Support
Staff from both chambers of the Parliament of Morocco are to take part in a study visit to the Italian Parliament on 28 and 29 November 2022 on the theme of opening Parliament to citizens. The visit, organised jointly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Italian...