28/01/2020 | Session
The Assembly held a vote by secret ballot on the election of the candidate proposed by the Russian delegation, Piotr Tolstoy. The voting took place yesterday and the results were announced this morning.
28/01/2020 | Session
"The Holocaust is part of our collective memory. It is our duty to make sure that never again may such atrocities happen,” said Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
28/01/2020 | Session
“Georgia's accession to the Council of Europe 21 years ago has marked the start of a path towards the transformation of our society, the liberation of the individual, the democratisation of the political system, the consolidation of democratic institutions, and a state based on the rule of law...
28/01/2020 | Session
The credentials of six national delegations, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Sweden and Switzerland, challenged at the opening of the session on grounds of gender-balance, have been approved.
28/01/2020 | Session
In the second round of voting Piotr Tolstoy did obtain an absolute majority of the votes cast, with more than half the number of representatives having voted. He is therefore elected as a PACE Vice-President.
28/01/2020 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected Mattias Guyomar as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of France for a term of office of nine years which shall commence as from 22 June 2020.
28/01/2020 | Session
PACE decides to open a monitoring procedure for Poland over the functioning of its democratic institutions. Recent reforms “severely damage the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law”.
28/01/2020 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development expressed its concern about the situation of the children in Syria and Iraq whose parents are believed to be affiliated to ISIS/Daesh.
28/01/2020 | Session
Threats to media freedom have become so numerous that they are jeopardising not only citizens’ right to be properly informed but also “the stability and smooth functioning of our democratic societies”, the Assembly said today.
27/01/2020 | Session
The Assembly will hold an urgent debate on the international obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war zones, and a current affairs debate on recent developments in Libya and in the Middle East.
27/01/2020 | President
Rik Daems has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Succeeding Liliane Maury Pasquier, he becomes PACE’s 33rd President and the third Belgian representative since 1949.
27/01/2020 | Session
At the opening of its plenary Session, the Assembly elected its Vice-Presidents. Twenty Vice-Presidents are elected annually at the beginning of an ordinary session and remain in office until the opening of the next session.