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Hybrid plenary Session (25-28 January)

25/01/2021 | Session

Adopting its final agenda at the opening of the 2021 winter plenary session, the Assembly decided to hold current affairs debates on "The arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny in January 2021" and on "Freedom of expression (Article 10 of the ECHR) under threat by ‘Big Tech’ Companies". Following...

Rik Daems
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Rik Daems, re-elected President, invites members to see PACE as vehicle for upholding shared values

25/01/2021 | Session

Strasbourg, 25.01.2021 – Rik Daems, re-elected today for a second one-year term as President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), thanked members for their confidence and welcomed the holding of PACE’s first hybrid plenary session. In his re-investiture speech, he stressed that...

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Russian delegation’s credentials challenged at opening of PACE hybrid plenary session

25/01/2021 | Session

The credentials of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been challenged on substantive grounds (Rule 8 of the Rules of Procedure) on the opening day of the 2021 “hybrid” winter plenary session. The challenge – made by the head of the Ukrainian...

Ian Liddell-Grainger

PACE reviews the work of its subsidiary bodies over a whole year

25/01/2021 | Session

The organisation of the Assembly’s work in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic with supplementary working methods and arrangements for the conduct of remote meetings; election observations; the 2020 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize; budgetary matters; and gender equality in the functioning of the...

Michael Aastrup Jensen, Denmark

PACE reviews progress of Council of Europe states under monitoring in 2020

25/01/2021 | Session

PACE today adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2020 and making a series of assessments of the progress of the countries subject to the monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue. There are eleven countries subject to the full monitoring...

Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić
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Human rights conventions are the ‘soul’ of modern Europe, Secretary General tells PACE

25/01/2021 | Session

Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has underlined the importance of the Organisation’s two key conventions: the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Social Charter. Addressing a hybrid session of the Parliamentary Assembly, she described them as comprising the “soul...

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Hybrid winter plenary session 2021

19/01/2021 | Session

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold its 2021 winter plenary session from January 25 to 28 in a hybrid manner, allowing members to participate remotely or attend in person in Strasbourg. The Assembly will debate the ethical, legal and practical considerations of...

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COVID-19: PACE Summer session postponed to a later date

30/04/2020 | Bureau

At its meeting on 30 April, the Bureau decided to postpone its part-session scheduled to be held in Strasbourg on 22-26 June to a later date, but before the October part-session. A decision on the date is expected to be taken by the Bureau at its meeting in June. The Bureau also approved a...

COVID-19: PACE Spring session is cancelled due to the Coronavirus

20/03/2020 | Session

The Spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly, which had been scheduled for 20-24 April 2020, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.

COVID-19: Spring session cancelled; Standing Committee meeting postponed

20/03/2020 | Session

The Spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly, which had been scheduled for 20-24 April 2020, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.

Combating disinformation, particularly in the context of elections

31/01/2020 | Session

PACE expressed its concern about the spread of disinformation campaigns aimed at shaping public opinion, trends of manipulation and foreign electoral interference process, and hate amplification on the internet and social media.

PACE lists steps needed to combat ‘organ transplant tourism’

31/01/2020 | Session

PACE has set out a series of steps to combat organ transplant tourism – including better traceability for donors and recipients, enforcing international referral systems and more work to tackle trafficking in general.