09/07/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee has given its backing to a new set of principles aimed at ensuring national Ombudsman’s offices across Europe remain independent, objective, transparent, fair and impartial.
08/07/2019 | President
“National parliaments are important relays for ensuring the inclusiveness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,” said PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier.
05/07/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee has proposed that Council of Europe member States, which are also members of the EU, transpose into their national legislation the European Parliament's directive aimed at “guaranteeing a high level of protection” to whistleblowers.
03/07/2019 | Prizes
A three-strong team of students from the Strate Design School in Sèvres (France) has won the PACE's competition to design a new trophy for the Europe Prize, which honours towns and cities for their commitment to the European ideal.
03/07/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier has expressed regret at the Ukrainian Parliament’s decision to withdraw its invitation to the Assembly to observe the 21 July early parliamentary elections.
03/07/2019 | Elections
Following the Verkhovna Rada's decision to withdraw its invitation to PACE to observe the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, the pre-electoral delegation decided to cease its activity prematurely.
02/07/2019 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach, co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 4 to 6 July, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
02/07/2019 | Monitoring
PACE monitors Dzhema Grozdanova and Alfred Heer have expressed their concern at the death of Ukrainian investigative journalist Vadym Komarov, and called for an effective investigation into his murder.
01/07/2019 | Monitoring
“We deeply regret that the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina was unable to present the credentials of its delegation to PACE”, said Tiny Kox and Serhiy Sobolev, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
28/06/2019 | Session
In the context of the election of a Vice-President of the Assembly in respect of the Russian Federation, the Assembly decided on 25 June to hold a vote by secret ballot on the election of the candidate proposed, Leonid Slutskiy.
28/06/2019 | Session
PACE expressed concern at the pushback policies and practice, which are in clear violation of the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees, including the right to asylum and the right to protection against refoulement.
28/06/2019 | Elections
A five-member PACE delegation will make a pre-electoral visit to Ukraine on 2-3 July to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the early parliamentary elections on 21 July.