26/06/2019 | Session
Following the opinion adopted by its Committee on Rules of Procedure, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today ratified the credentials of the Spanish parliamentary delegation.
26/06/2019 | Session
“Portugal has owed the Council of Europe a permanent inspiration since 1976, on which our democratic consensus has largely been based, which requires a long-term commitment,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
26/06/2019 | Session
PACE has voted to ratify the credentials of the Russian delegation after they were challenged on substantial grounds, declaring it remained “committed to dialogue as a means of reaching lasting solutions”.
26/06/2019 | Session
The Assembly today elected Marija Pejčinović Burić (Croatia) Secretary General of the Council of Europe for a five-year term beginning on 18 September 2019. She obtained 159 votes, an absolute majority.
26/06/2019 | Session
In today's election of the judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Germany, none of the candidates obtained an absolute majority of the votes cast. A second round of voting will be held on Thursday 27 June.
26/06/2019 | Session
PACE has listed a series of “serious concerns” over the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and demanded the setting up of an independent public inquiry into her death within three months.
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its members’ “rights to vote, to speak and to be represented in the Assembly and its bodies shall not be suspended or withdrawn in the context of a challenge to or reconsideration of credentials”.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
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
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.