25/06/2019 | Session
PACE has decided that its members’ “rights to vote, to speak and to be represented in the Assembly and its bodies shall not be suspended or withdrawn in the context of a challenge to or reconsideration of credentials”.
25/06/2019 | Session
In the context of the election of a Vice-President in respect of the Russian Federation, the Assembly decided to hold a vote by secret ballot on the election of the candidate proposed by the Russian delegation, Leonid Slutskiy.
25/06/2019 | Session
Despite the challenges of the budget for the next biennium, the Assembly will have to continue to be “the political driving force of the Council of Europe”, PACE said in a resolution adopted today.
25/06/2019 | Session
Despite uncertainty around the payment of the Russian Federation's contributions, PACE notes that the Programme and Budget shows “the willingness to promote an Organisation confident in its know-how”.
25/06/2019 | Session
The credentials of the new Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly, presented this morning on the second day of the plenary session, have been challenged on both substantive and procedural grounds.
25/06/2019 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlatean and Claude Kern, have welcomed the offer by the ruling majority in Georgia to introduce fully proportional by 2020.
25/06/2019 | Session
The progress report which covers the activities and decisions of the Parliamentary Assembly’s subsidiary bodies since the last session. was presented today by Petra De Sutter (Belgium, SOC).
25/06/2019 | Session
Since its creation 70 years ago, the Council of Europe has been instrumental in countering discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, achieving substantial progress in its member States, PACE said.
25/06/2019 | Session
PACE today reaffirmed “its firm support” for the Istanbul Convention, “the most advanced and comprehensive international legal instrument on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence”.
25/06/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
La Commission des questions sociales a salué les efforts constants de la Banque de développement du Conseil de l’Europe pour soutenir une croissance inclusive et durable et l’intégration des réfugiés.
25/06/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE’s Migration Committee has set out a plan for better protecting the victims of natural disasters caused by climate change – including laws to protect people forced to move internally “for environmental reasons”.
25/06/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
European countries should work together to reduce the negative aspects of people leaving eastern Europe to work in the EU or western Europe – such as “brain-drain”, dwindling populations, or falling social security contributions.