25/05/2018 | Election observation
A seven-member PACE delegation, led by Olena Sotnyk, will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Turkey on 29-30 May, to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the early presidential and parliamentary elections.
24/05/2018 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the PACE will meet in Zagreb, at the Croatian Parliament, on Friday 1 June, on the occasion of the Croatian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (May-November 2018).
24/05/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In several Council of Europe member States the space for civil society has been shrinking over the last few years, especially in respect of NGOs working in the area of human rights, the committee has warned.
24/05/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Over the past few years the number of reprisals against human rights defenders has been on the rise, the committee has said. Some of them have been threatened, physically attacked, arbitrarily arrested, detained or imprisoned.
23/05/2018 | President
Ending an official visit to Greece, PACE President Michele Nicoletti praised the excellent co-operation existing between the Council of Europe and Greece, especially at the parliamentary level.
23/05/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Egidijus Vareikis, rapporteur on the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine, has called for the release of Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov, currently detained in Russia after his conviction on terrorist charges.
22/05/2018 | Monitoring
Giuseppe Galati and Yuliya Lovochkina, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to Yerevan from 23 to 25 May.
22/05/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
A committee calls on academics and scholars throughout the Council of Europe area to come together in a trans-national network to combat corruption, and encourage implementation of Council of Europe Conventions in this field.
22/05/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Dora Bakoyannis, rapporteur on the situation in Syria, has called on the international community to support a wide-ranging plan to bring security and political transition to the country – backed by the UN and regional powers.
22/05/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The victim of a terror attack in London has told a parliamentary hearing in Athens about the difficult challenges he faced in the aftermath of the attack – and how he had hoped for greater support from the authorities.
18/05/2018 | President
PACE President Michele Nicoletti is to make an official visit to Greece on 21-22 May, when he is due to meet, among others, the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
18/05/2018 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Eerik-Niiles Kross and Dzhema Grozdanova, have expressed their deep concern at the opening of a bridge over the Kerch Strait between Russia and illegally-annexed Crimea.