22/01/2018 | President
Michele Nicoletti (Italy, SOC) was today elected President of the PACE. Taking over from Stella Kyriakides (Cyprus, EPP/CD), he is the 31st President of the Assembly since 1949 and the second Italian to hold this office.
22/01/2018 | Session
The credentials of the new Andorran delegation to PACE have been challenged on the grounds that it does not contain at least one Representative who is a member of “the under-represented sex”, as required by the Rules.
22/01/2018 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has called on the member states to recommit themselves to fulfill their obligations and cooperate in good faith with the Council’s statutory bodies.
22/01/2018 | Session
PACE ratified, as part of its Progress Report, the terms of reference, composition and timetable of the ad hoc Committee on ‘The role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly’ as approved by its PACE Bureau in December 2017.
17/01/2018 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach has welcomed the "constructive participation and openness to dialogue" of the representatives of the Moldovan authorities and the de facto authorities in Tiraspol at a round table in Paris.
15/01/2018 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in partnership with the Vaclav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has today issued a call for nominations for the 2018 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.
12/01/2018 | Session
The Presidents of Armenia and Austria, as well as the Prime Minister and the Crown Princess of Denmark, are among VIPs to address the PACE winter session, taking place from 22 to 26 January in Strasbourg.
11/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two PACE rapporteurs have expressed serious concern at the arrest of Oyub Titiev, a prominent human rights defender and head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen Republic.
11/01/2018 | Monitoring
The Sub-Committee on conflicts between Council of Europe member States will hold a round table on the Transnistrian settlement process, with representatives of the Moldovan authorities and the Transnistrian de facto authorities.
04/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"Yesterday, the Knesset gave its preliminary approval for legislation that would make it easier for a court to impose a death sentence for murder in attacks classified as terrorism. This is a worrying development," said Yves Cruchten.
31/12/2017 | President
"2017 has been a year of extraordinary challenges for the Council of Europe. Now, as we approach 2018, we need to take stock of where we are and to provide hope for the coming year", PACE President Stella Kyriakides said.
21/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced the upholding of two death sentences by the Supreme Court of Belarus.