26/06/2018 | Session
Some 35 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spoke today in the so-called “free debate”, which allows parliamentarians to speak on current issues not already included on the session agenda.
26/06/2018 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland replied to questions from members of the Parliamentary Assembly in a question and answer session during the Parliamentary Assembly’s Summer part-session.
25/06/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC) has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Succeeding Michele Nicoletti, she becomes PACE’s 32nd President.
25/06/2018 | Session
The Assembly will hold debates on “Threats to the health and life of Ukrainian prisoners in the Russian Federation and occupied Crimea” and on “International obligations of Council of Europe member States: to protect life at sea”.
25/06/2018 | Session
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC) has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Succeeding Michele Nicoletti, she becomes PACE’s 32nd President.
25/06/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Summer 2018 Session, Michele Nicoletti as a new Vice-President of the Assembly in respect of Italy. Twenty Vice-Presidents are elected annually.
25/06/2018 | Election observation
Voters had a genuine choice in the early elections in Turkey, but the conditions for campaigning were not equal, with the incumbent president enjoying an undue advantage, the international observers concluded.
25/06/2018 | Session
PACE Standing Committee meeting in Zagreb and the observation of the early presidential election in Azerbaijan (11 April 2018) were major themes during the debate on the progress report of the Bureau.
25/06/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights considers that the Russian Federation should “hand over the wreckage of the Polish Air Force Tu-154 to the competent Polish authorities without further delay”.
25/06/2018 | Session
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić spelled out the priorities of Croatia for its six-month spell chairing the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in a speech today.
24/06/2018 | President
Reacting to an attack against a Roma community near Lviv, Ukraine, leaving one young man dead and several wounded, the President expressed his shock and dismay strongly condemning what appeared to be “a racist attack.”
22/06/2018 | President
Speaking during an exchange of views with the EU Council’s Working Party on co-operation with the OSCE and the Council of Europe, Michele Nicoletti appealed to member States to shoulder their responsibility for the future of European unity.