31/05/2018 | Elections
A pre-electoral delegation visited Ankara to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the early presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on 24 June, while Turkey is under a state of emergency.
31/05/2018 | Monitoring
The Parliamentary Assembly Monitoring Committee made public an information note by rapporteur Eerik-Niils Kross (Estonia, ALDE) on the latest situation in Ukraine, following his recent visit to the country.
31/05/2018 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE) and Titus Corlaţean (Romania, SOC), have strongly condemned the recognition by the Syrian authorities of the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and...
30/05/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni former rapporteur on the situation in Belarus,have strongly condemned two recent executions which reportedly took place in secret in mid-May.
30/05/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Yves Cruchten, rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni former rapporteur on the situation in Belarus,have strongly condemned two recent executions which reportedly took place in secret in mid-May.
28/05/2018 | Monitoring
The monitoring co-rapporteurs for Armenia, Giuseppe Galati and Yuliya Lovochkina, have congratulated all political forces, and above all the Armenian people, on the restraint and political maturity displayed during the recent protest.
25/05/2018 | Elections
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.