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 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 | Elections
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.
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.
21/06/2018 | President
PACE President Michele Nicoletti today expressed his deep regret at the decision of the United States of America to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
21/06/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten has expressed concern at the adoption by the Hungarian Parliament on 20 June of a package of laws criminalising the work of NGOs who help asylum-seekers and migrants.
21/06/2018 | President
In his speech before the HELP conference, initially set up for the training of legal professionals, the President made a plea for the creation of academic networks to support key Council of Europe Conventions.
20/06/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
"The world’s refugees deserve our help, yet once again Europe is failing to find a united humanitarian response", the Chair of the Committee on Migration said today on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
20/06/2018 | Monitoring
“The Macedonian parliament ratified the agreement signed by Skopje and Athens on the 'name issue'. We commend the goodwill taken by the two member States, whose deal to the stability of the whole region,” said co-rapporteurs.
19/06/2018 | Elections
Following an invitation from the authorities, PACE will send a 33-member delegation to Turkey to observe the conduct of the early elections, alongside observers from OSCE-PA and OSCE-ODIHR.