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 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – or risk having no Bosnian members in the Assembly for the whole of 2019. Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL) and...
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 | Elections
“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.
29/03/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier congratulated the people of Armenia and the authorities for completing a peaceful and democratic political transition which followed a major overhaul of the country’s governance system.
27/03/2019 | Elections
A PACE delegation headed by Angela Smith will travel to Ukraine to observe the conduct of the 31 March presidential election alongside observers from the OSCE, the European Parliament and NATO.
27/03/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
80 participants from 22 countries discussed the role of diasporas in the development of civil society, and in particular the mechanisms to ensure the better involvement of diasporas and civil society in decision-making processes.
27/03/2019 | President
Speaking to the National Assembly as part of her official visit to Armenia, PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier praised the smooth functioning of democratic institutions in the country.
25/03/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik will make a visit on 27-28 March to Zagreb and Cetingrad (Croatia) and to Velika Kladusa (Bosnia and Herzegovina), as part of the preparation of her report on pushback action by member State.
25/03/2019 | Parliamentary support
The role of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in implementing judgments of the European Court of Human Rights was the focus of a capacity-building seminar on 21-22 March 2019 in Strasbourg – with parliamentary staff receiving advice on ways to check that new laws are “Convention-compliant...