24/10/2019 | Monitoring
Andrej Hunko and Joseph O’Reilly, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, will make a fact-finding visit to Tirana, during which they will meet the Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament.
24/10/2019 | News
"“We have been building our Common Home for 70 years now and yet, if we do not show commitment and political will, it runs the risk of fracturing”, Liliane Maury Pasquier said at the opening of the Conference of Presidents.
22/10/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Parlimentary Assembly rapporteur Sylvain Waserman has commented on recent cases involving whistleblowers in Serbia and the United States, two countries with very protective whistleblower laws.
21/10/2019 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach and Roger Gale, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, have expressed their deep concern about the violence used by the police during the dispersion of a rally held in Baku.
18/10/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"Faced with the immense human suffering caused by trafficking in human beings, the relevant legal instruments of the Council of Europe should be promoted and strengthened," declared Vernon Coaker.
15/10/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier will participate in a parity debate as part of the 141st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Belgrade and will hold a number of bilateral meetings with Serbian government and parliamentary leaders.
15/10/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Before all else, my thoughts are with Daphne’s family on this day of mourning. Two years after her brutal assassination, they are still fighting for justice," said Peter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD).
14/10/2019 | President
“Increasing digitisation and certain aspects of artificial intelligence go to the very heart of democratic functioning, the rule of law and human rights in our societies,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier.
12/10/2019 | President
It is with great concern that I am following the events related to Turkey's military intervention in northern Syria. This intervention entails risks of great tension and I regret the loss of human lives.
11/10/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt, rapporteur on “Addressing the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families...”, responded to the withdrawal of US military forces from northern Syria and the subsequent military incursion by Turkish forces.
11/10/2019 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Artificial Intelligence has started showing society its darker side, as it can be used to “manipulate or distort reality”, Deborah Bergamini, PACE rapporteur on the need for democratic governance of AI, has warned.
10/10/2019 | Parliamentary support
The Assembly is organising a fifth capacity-building seminar, in Strasbourg (Palais de l'Europe) on 14 and 15 October 2019, for staff members of national parliaments, after having held a fifth parliamentary conference on the role of national parliaments guaranteeing human rights in Europe, in...