22/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The members of the Independent External Investigation Body and the Parliamentary Assembly President today met the press at the end of the Bureau meeting. The video recording of this press conference is now available.
22/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Independent External Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption in PACE today presented its report to the Bureau of the Assembly. At the end of the meeting, the Bureau made the report public.
22/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Independent External Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption in PACE today presented its report to the Bureau of the Assembly. At the end of the meeting, the Bureau made the report public.
22/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
In response to the report of the investigation body, the PACE Bureau decided to invite the PACE members whose behavior has been found as unethical to suspend all their activities within the Assembly with immediate effect.
20/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Independent External Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption in PACE will present, on Sunday 22 April, its report to the Bureau of the Assembly (in camera). This report will be made public on the PACE website.
20/04/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed outrage at the execution in Alabama of 83-year-old convicted murderer Walter Leroy Moody, by a lethal injection of drugs.
19/04/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Key challenges and policy responses in the areas of children’s mental health and child friendly justice will be discussed at a meeting organised on 24 April in Strasbourg by the Committee on Social Affairs.
16/04/2018 | Elections
"Fundamental freedoms were respected in the 15 April Montenegro presidential election, although the governing party candidate held an institutional advantage," the international observers concluded today.
12/04/2018 | President
“As a constitutional instrument of the European public order, the Convention provides a solid legal foundation for European unity,” said PACE President Michele Nicoletti, speaking today at a conference in Copenhagen. He advocated the need for reaffirming the Court’s authority as “an independent...
12/04/2018 | Elections
Azerbaijan election lacked genuine competition in an environment of curtailed rights and freedoms, say international observers from PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE’s ODIHR.
11/04/2018 | Elections
A 13-member PACE delegation, led by Jonas Gunnarsson, will travel to Montenegro from 13 to 16 April to observe the Presidential election, alongside observers from the EP and the OSCE-ODIHR.
09/04/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I call on the Turkish authorities to lift the state of emergency as quickly as possible", Yves Cruchten, PACE rapporteur on “Preventing inappropriate restrictions on NGO activities in Europe”, said at the end of a visit to Ankara.