08/04/2019 | Session
Adopting its agenda at the opening of the 2019 Spring Session, the Assembly decided to hold an urgent debate on the theme “Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future”.
08/04/2019 | Session
The President called on PACE members to meet the expectations of “millions of Europeans who are reaping the tangible benefits of closer union between the peoples and nations of Europe."
08/04/2019 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"Member States must urgently step up their efforts to combat the scourge of anti-Gypsyism in all its forms", PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination said on the occasion of the International Roma Day.
08/04/2019 | Session
The progress report which covers the activities and decisions of the Assembly’s subsidiary bodies since the last session was presented today in the plenary by Boriana Aberg (Sweden, EPP /CD).
08/04/2019 | Session
Today the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, presented in Strasbourg her first annual activity report in a debate before the Parliamentary Assembly of the organisation.
08/04/2019 | Session
“Finding a solution to the current political and institutional crisis would require close co-operation with all member States and both statutory bodies, said Timo Soini addressing the Assembly today.
05/04/2019 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe holds its spring session in Strasbourg on 8 to 12 April 2019, with addresses expected by the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Georgia.
05/04/2019 | Monitoring
The parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been warned that it has only two days left to submit the names of its delegation to PACE, or risk having no Bosnian members in the Assembly for the whole of 2019.
05/04/2019 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL), rapporteur for the Political Affairs Committee on the Role and mission of the Assembly: main challenges for the future, held a number of meetings in Brussels on 4 April with representatives of EU institutions and in particular with the President of the European...
04/04/2019 | President
President Liliane Maury Pasquier has paid tribute to the role of local and regional authorities as “guardians of grassroots democracy”, building and reinforcing trust between citizens and institutions.
03/04/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik has expressed extreme concern at the conditions in two reception centres for asylum-seekers in Bosnia and Herzegovina,and has questioned Croatian denials that “pushbacks” onto Bosnian territory are taking place.
01/04/2019 | Election observation
“We were pleased to see that the campaign was competitive but believe, nevertheless, that there are key legal issues that should be addressed as a matter of priority,” said the head of the PACE delegation.