17/09/2026 | Children of Ukraine
Parliamentarians and international officials gathered in Paris on Wednesday 16 September to highlight the need to step up actions to secure the safe return of forcibly transferred and deported Ukrainian children and ensure accountability for the perpetrators of the crimes committed against them...
16/09/2026 | President
By creating the Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces in October 2025, PACE became the first international body that “formalised and institutionalised dialogue with the other Russia,” said PACE President Petra Bayr in Washington today, opening a meeting of the Washington Dialogue...
15/09/2026 | LGBTI
Kate Osborne (United Kingdom, SOC), the General Rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons, made the following statement today: “I unequivocally condemn the wave of harassment...
15/09/2026 | Political Affairs and Democracy
On the occasion of the International Day of Democracy (15 September), PACE General Rapporteur on Democracy George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), made the following statement: "On the International Day of Democracy, we must reaffirm a fundamental truth: democracy is more than a system of government. It...
14/09/2026 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The demographic change in Europe, marked by low birth rates, population ageing, shrinking cohorts of working-age people and depopulation of rural areas, requires adaptation and mitigation measures “that focus on people’s rights, choices and empowerment”, the Committee on Social Affairs said...
14/09/2026 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“The future and legitimacy of European democracy depend on involving everyone, including diasporas and migrants, in democratic processes,” PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons said today, adopting a draft resolution based on a report by Lord Leslie Griffiths (United Kingdom...
11/09/2026 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs, meeting on 9 September in Paris, expressed its concern regarding attempts “to threaten and intimidate international judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC)”, by subjecting them to coercive measures for undertaking their functions as part of...
11/09/2026 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Europe is facing its “largest cohort of veterans since the Second World War”, mainly as a result of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, which has created more than two million veterans, PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has said. The...
11/09/2026 | Monitoring
Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “The functioning of democratic institutions in the Slovak Republic”, will make a fact-finding visit to Bratislava from 15 to 17 September. The co...
10/09/2026 | Elections
A seven-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Jone Blikra (Norway, SOC), will make a pre-electoral visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 15 to 17 September to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the general elections on 4...
09/09/2026 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Members of the family of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the investigative journalist assassinated in Malta nine years ago, have denounced the “complete failure” to convict anyone for ordering her assassination following the acquittal by a Maltese jury last week of Yorgen Fenech, a Maltese businessman...
09/09/2026 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights made the following statement today on the glorification of Ratko Mladić: "The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Ratko Mladić of genocide resulting in the massacre of between 7,000 and 8,000 Bosniak men...