17/09/2018 | Elections
A PACE delegation headed by Andrej Hunko will make a pre-electoral visit to Georgia from 19 to 20 September to assess the election campaign and political climate ahead of the 28 October Presidential election.
14/09/2018 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the PACE will organise a joint seminar with the Georgian parliament on “Parliamentary oversight and the role of the opposition” in Tbilisi on 17 September 2018.
14/09/2018 | President
"Democracy and political life are facing new challenges in an increasingly digital world", said Liliane Maury Pasquier, PACE President, on the occasion of the International Day of Democracy.
12/09/2018 | President
“Health for all – that was the slogan that came out of the Alma Ata Declaration,” PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier said today, paying tribute to this major milestone which set a new agenda for human rights in global health.
12/09/2018 | President
“The sentencing of the former co-President of the pro-Kurdish HDP party Selahattin Demirtaş and former HDP parliamentarian Sırrı Süreyya Önder to several years’ imprisonment is of particular concern to me,“said Liliane Maury Pasquier.
12/09/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The rapporteur on new challenges in the fight against organised crime and money laundering, welcomed the news that the European Commission proposes to ensure that EU anti-money laundering regulations are properly enforced.
12/09/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“The Internet is not only a place of democracy and open debate but also a place where discourse is deliberately manipulated, where fake news is knowingly disseminated on a large scale”, rapporteur Frithjof Schmidt stressed.
11/09/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
After seven years of implementation of the partnership for democracy between the Parliament of Morocco and PACE, the he Political Affairs Committee has made a “positive assessment” of its results.
11/09/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Political Affairs Committee has urged Council of Europe states to “put an end” to any foreign funding of Islam which is used for the purpose of “national political expansion into other States under the guise of Islam”.
11/09/2018 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Tirana, the co-rapporteurs Andrej Hunko and Joseph O’Reilly have expressed their satisfaction with the on-going vetting process of judges and prosecutors in the country.
10/09/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
With the adoption of a report by Donald Anderson, the committee wants to reaffirm its commitment to the fight against impunity for perpetrators of serious human rights violations and against corruption.
10/09/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In many European States, regular criminal trials have gradually been replaced by different forms of trial waiver systems. These trial waiver systems have clear potential advantages, but also serious drawbacks.