09/04/2019 | Session
PACE today called on national parliaments and local authorities to become actively involved in the implementation and monitoring of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
09/04/2019 | Session
PACE has decided to strengthen dialogue with the United Nations, focusing on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and on the complementarity between the Council of Europe and the UN.
09/04/2019 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly today elected Saadet Yüksel as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Turkey. Ms Yüksel obtained an absolute majority of votes cast.
09/04/2019 | Session
The Assembly called for a series of measures aimed at stopping sexism and sexual harassment in politics. These recommendations are addressed to national parliaments, but also to political parties and governments.
09/04/2019 | Session
PACE has suggested the Council of Europe should retain “primacy” when it comes to assessing EU member states’ compliance with common fundamental values, while stepping up its “political co-ordination” with the EU.
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.
08/04/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Legal Affairs Committee has expressed alarm at the criminal charges laid against Laura Codruta Kovesi and suggested the charges “may well be politically motivated”.