28/11/2018 | Monitoring
Still on the topic of Ukraine’s efforts to combat corruption, the co-rapporteurs expressed their concern at the fact that tensions between the main bodies had not subsided or been resolved.
26/11/2018 | Elections
Andrej Hunko and Reina de Bruijn-Wezeman will travel to Georgia from 27 to 29 November to observe the conduct of the second round of the presidential election, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA, EP and OSCE-ODIHR.
26/11/2018 | President
“I am greatly concerned by the events on Sunday in which force was used and people were injured in the seizure of Ukrainian vessels in the Azov Sea,” Parliamentary Assembly President Liliane Maury Pasquier said.
26/11/2018 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Kerstin Lundgren and Titus Corlăţean, have condemned the ongoing “borderisation” of the administrative boundary line with South Ossetia by the Russian Federation.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
“Our Assembly must send a loud and clear message that sexism and sexual abuse in parliaments across Europe are simply unacceptable,” said PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier in Helsinki, launching a hashtag campaign.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
PACE has called for the official recognition of sign languages so that deaf persons can “exercise their fundamental rights”. Such recognition would also “contribute to further promoting the richness of deaf culture”.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
In a turbulent Europe, PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier has welcomed the “calm and steady hand” of Finland at the helm of the Council of Europe during the Finnish Presidency of the organisation.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee proposed a series of measures to ensure access to palliative care, not just to the terminally ill but also to those who are chronically ill and to persons requiring high levels of individual care.
23/11/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Mogens Jensen, rapporteur on the evaluation of the partnership for democracy with the Parliament of Jordan, will travel to Amman on 27-28 November for a fact-finding visit.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
PACE has further improved the way the Assembly elects judges to the European Court of Human Rights, including streamlining the procedure for rejecting lists of candidates which do not meet the required standards.
23/11/2018 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee called on member States to promote student mobility to and from their countries, through a set of measures on tuition fees, accreditation of diplomas and compatibility between education systems.
22/11/2018 | President
Recalling the Court's findings that the extensions of Mr Demirtaş’ detention 'had pursued the predominant purpose of limiting freedom of political debate,' PACE President hoped for the speedy implementation of the judgment.