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.
18/05/2018 | President
Michele Nicoletti, addressing a gathering of Council of Europe ministers in Denmark, has called on the organisation to “concentrate on our core mission, which is defending human rights, democracy and the rule of law”.
17/05/2018 | Secretary General of the Assembly
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki met with the Secretary General of the OSCE PA Roberto Montella and his counterpart from the NATO PA, David Hobbs, for the latest in regular consultations.
16/05/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure has found that four individual members named in the report of the Independent Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption within the Assembly have “seriously breached” its Code of Conduct, and ruled that all four should be temporarily...
16/05/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Army. I join my voice to those asking for an international investigation,” said Mrs Oomen-Ruijten reacting to the escalation of violence in Gaza.
16/05/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Over the last year we have seen regrettable setbacks in the situation of the daily lives of many LGBTI people in Europe,” said Piet De Bruyn, on the occasion of the Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
09/05/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
At a meeting in Paris, the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs will hold a hearing (in camera) of some of the PACE members mentioned in the report of the Independent Investigation Body on the allegations of corruption within the Assembly. The agenda will...