26/01/2026 | Bureau
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting this morning ahead of the opening of the Assembly’s winter plenary session in Strasbourg, has approved the list of Participants in the Assembly’s Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces, which was...
26/01/2026 | Session
The lists of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Cyprus and the Netherlands; the modalities for the implementation of Assembly Resolution 2621 (2025) on Russian democratic forces; as well as the observation of the elections in the Republic of...
26/01/2026 | Session
“To listen to the rhetoric and news in these last weeks and months, it seems that too many have forgotten the importance of international law and international justice, forgotten that these are the shared values of our community, and forgotten above all that humanity is at the heart of our system...
26/01/2026 | Session
Adopting a resolution today, based on a report prepared by Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD), the Assembly took stock of the PACE monitoring activities carried out in 2025. It assessed the situation in countries under a full monitoring procedure, engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, or...
26/01/2026 | Elections
Meeting in plenary, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe debated its observation of the early parliamentary elections held on 30 November 2025 in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Assembly concluded that “the elections were efficiently run but the restrictive campaign environment stifled...
16/01/2026 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Charta 77 Foundation, has issued a call for nominations for the 2026 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The Prize, created in 2013, aims to reward outstanding civil society action in defending human rights in Europe...
29/12/2025 | Elections
A delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has welcomed the smooth and professional conduct of the early elections to the Assembly of Kosovo, expressing the hope that all political stakeholders will demonstrate responsibility in restoring functional institutions...
19/12/2025 | Elections
A six-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by Yunus Emre (Türkiye, SOC), will travel to Kosovo from 27 to 29 December to observe the early elections to the Assembly of Kosovo. The delegation will meet leaders and representatives of the main...
19/12/2025 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Theodoros Rousopoulos, made the following statement today: “In recent days, following a recommendation by a high-ranking member of a political group within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, I agreed to...
18/12/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Marking International Migrants Day (18 December 2025), the Chair of the PACE Migration Committee Oleksii Goncharenko (Ukraine, ECPA) and Pelin Yılık (Türkiye, NR), the Assembly’s rapporteur on Migrants’ and refugees’ access to healthcare, made the following statement: “International Migrants’ Day...
16/12/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
In October 2025 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided to establish the Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces, as a forum for two-way engagement between the Assembly and Russian democratic forces on issues of common concern. Following a meeting on 12...
16/12/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC), PACE's rapporteur on accountability for Russia's aggression against Ukraine, has warmly welcomed yesterday’s major step towards an International Claims Commission for Ukraine, and pledged that the Assembly will do “everything in its power” to support it as well as...