24/01/2018 | Session
The crisis of confidence in major sports governing bodies "seems far from over”. The failures are systemic and call for “a major overhaul of sports governance structures and practices”, PACE said today.
24/01/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly has called on the European Union to consider setting up an independent “observatory” to assess governance in football, following a series of scandals in the sport.
24/01/2018 | Session
“Democracy constantly requires attention, review, and advancement. Along the lines of this logic, we undertook a constitutional reform process in Armenia,” said Serzh Sargsyan, addressing the Assembly today.
24/01/2018 | Session
Dunja Mijatović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) was today elected as the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights by the Assembly. Ms Mijatović was elected for a non-renewable term of six years starting on 1 April 2018.
24/01/2018 | Session
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has called for further reform of the European Convention on Human Rights – and urged member States to apply it more effectively at national level. Addressing PACE at its plenary session in Strasbourg, the Prime Minister said it was necessary to “reform...
24/01/2018 | Session
While welcoming progress made in a number of areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, PACE remains concerned about the lack of progress in the field of constitutional reform and reform of the Election Law.
24/01/2018 | Session
The Assembly voted in favour of drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer, following the proposals of the rapporteur Sabien Lahaye-Battheu (Belgium, ALDE). The parliamentarians believe that greater protection should be offered to lawyers who, in many Council of Europe member...
24/01/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today held a current affairs debate on “The Turkish military intervention in Syria”, opened by Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL). 11 speakers took the floor in the debate.
24/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs notes that the confiscation of criminal assets is often prevented by “an unreasonably heavy burden of proof placed on the competent national authorities" in different countries.
23/01/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly has urged Council of Europe member States to do more to protect minority languages – and called for the creation of an annual prize for countries which actively promote their use.
23/01/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Following the launching of the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policy in Lisbon in September 2017, the first regional seminar of the Network will take place, at the invitation of the Moroccan Parliament, on 8 February in Rabat.
23/01/2018 | Session
The protection of human rights cannot be taken for granted, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark told the Assembly today, stressing the need for the principles and values underlying them to be passed on to new generations.