01/10/2025 | Session
At the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Maltese Deputy Prime Minister Ian Borg highlighted the Committee of Ministers’ achievements and the priorities of the Maltese Presidency. Towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine In his address, Minister Borg spoke of the Special Tribunal on...
01/10/2025 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed serious concern at Hungary’s lack of progress on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, pointing to a “worsening situation in certain areas”. Hungary has been under the Assembly’s monitoring procedure since 2022. It is...
01/10/2025 | Session
Opening a current affairs debate on “The political crisis in Serbia,” Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), one of the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, outlined the events that led to the deterioration of the situation in the country, referring to the escalation of mass protests since...
01/10/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“Migration has long been a cornerstone of development and progress,” Arthur Erken, Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told the Assembly’s Migration Committee during an exchange of views on the margins of the Assembly’s autumn...
01/10/2025 | Session
The Assembly today inaugurated the annual “Victory for Viktoria” commemoration to honour war correspondents and journalists who risk, and often lose, their lives defending the right to information and truth in conflict zones. During the opening of the event in Strasbourg, PACE President Theodoros...
01/10/2025 | Session
“The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is also a war against truth,” the Parliamentary Assembly declared today, urging the liberation of Ukrainian journalists unlawfully detained by the Russian Federation. Adopting a resolution based on the report by Yevheniia Kravchuk (Ukraine, ALDE...
01/10/2025 | Session
Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly, Malta’s President Myriam Spiteri Debono reflected on six decades of Malta’s engagement with the Council of Europe, emphasising the organisation as a forum “where our core values are nurtured, upheld and translated into tangible progress”. Speaking as both “a...
01/10/2025 | Session
Young people across Europe are “among the most active defenders and imaginative builders” of democracy, human rights the rule of law, according to PACE, and they should be treated “not with repression or indifference, but with recognition, protection and support”. Adopting a resolution based on...
01/10/2025 | Women@PACE
“Policy alone does not bring change. We need to change mindsets” stressed from the outset Her Excellency Myriam Spiteri Debono, President of Malta, speaking at the Women@PACE group meeting during the 2025 Autumn Session of the PACE. The discussion, under the theme “Passing the Torch: Women’s...
01/10/2025 | Session
At its plenary session in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided today to close the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and to follow the developments in the country in the framework of its periodic reviews. It welcomed the fact that Bulgaria had...
01/10/2025 | Session
“The Russian Federation must make full reparation for all the damage, loss or injury caused,” the Parliamentary Assembly said today, welcoming the finalisation of the draft convention establishing an international claims commission for Ukraine. Adopting its opinion based on the report by Lord...
01/10/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“It is essential that women who are victims of violence in Latvia can benefit from the protection and support mechanisms of the Istanbul Convention,” said the Chairperson of PACE's Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Catia Polidori (Italy, EPP/CD). “Members of Parliament sent a strong...