19/12/2025 | Election observation
A six-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Yunus Emre (Türkiye, SOC), will travel to Kosovo from 27 to 29 December to observe the early elections to the Assembly of Kosovo. The delegation will meet leaders and representatives of the main...
19/12/2025 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, made the following statement today: “In recent days, following a recommendation by a high-ranking member of a political group within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, I agreed to...
18/12/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Marking International Migrants Day (18 December 2025), the Chair of the PACE Migration Committee Oleksii Goncharenko (Ukraine, ECPA) and Pelin Yılık (Türkiye, NR), the Assembly’s rapporteur on Migrants’ and refugees’ access to healthcare, made the following statement: “International Migrants’ Day...
16/12/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
In October 2025 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided to establish the Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces, as a forum for two-way engagement between the Assembly and Russian democratic forces on issues of common concern. Following a meeting on 12...
16/12/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC), PACE's rapporteur on accountability for Russia's aggression against Ukraine, has warmly welcomed yesterday’s major step towards an International Claims Commission for Ukraine, and pledged that the Assembly will do “everything in its power” to support it as well as...
15/12/2025 | Artificial Intelligence
Parliamentarians, policymakers, experts, AI professionals, academics and NGO representatives gathered in London for a major conference on artificial intelligence have urged a stronger role for parliaments in shaping the development, application and regulation of AI to ensure that it complies with...
15/12/2025 | Ad Hoc Committee New Democratic Pact
What initiatives are partner organisations of the Council of Europe, such as the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), undertaking to protect democracy? This was the focus of the fourth meeting of the PACE ad hoc Committee on the New Democratic Pact...
12/12/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee today underlined its concern over “recent developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, marked by attacks against the State, the rule of law and the institutions established following the General Framework Agreement of Peace”, while noting “cause for hope” after decisions...
12/12/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee has adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2025 and summarising its assessments concerning the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as those subject this year to the periodic review of...
11/12/2025 | Artificial Intelligence
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the UK Parliament will hold a parliamentary conference on artificial intelligence on 15 and 16 December at the House of Commons (Palace of Westminster) in London. This event, which will bring together parliamentarians from Council of...
11/12/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Ukraine's security is now an “indivisible part” of Europe's security, a PACE committee has said, urging support for Ukraine’s accession to the EU which it said would constitute a security guarantee for the country – while also offering a strong incentive to Ukraine to pursue necessary reforms...
10/12/2025 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting in Paris on 9 December, has proposed “to close the post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia”. Adopting a report by Sibel Arslan (Switzerland, SOC) and Joseph O'Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), the committee welcomed the measures taken by the authorities to reform...