16/03/2018 | Standing Committee
“As an Assembly one could almost define as the Parliamentary Assembly of Human Rights, our position is clear: efficiency should not be ensured at the expense of the effectiveness of the protection system", warned Mr Nicoletti.
16/03/2018 | Standing Committee
PACE has urged European countries to ensure that child maintenance payments, made by one parent to another after a separation, are made promptly and in full, calling for the fostering of “a culture of payment”.
15/03/2018 | Monitoring
Eerik-Niiles Kross, co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Ukraine, will make a visit to the country from 19 to 21 March. He intends to focus notably on recent political developments and the state of the reform programme.
14/03/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee noted with concern that nowadays states are more and more often confronted with the phenomenon of “hybrid war”, which poses a new type of threat based on a combination of military and non-military means.
14/03/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
CoE member States should go beyond security measures and work with Muslim communities and other priority audiences to produce “tailored, flexible and positive” alternative narratives to terrorist propaganda, the committee said.
12/03/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The situation in Syria has severely deteriorated to the extent that the UN Secretary General has described it as ‘hell on earth’ and the international community has failed to achieve a political solution,” said Dora Bakoyannis.
12/03/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Council of Europe should contribute to the efforts of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya to set up unified state structures in the country, said the committee approving a report by Attila Korodi.
11/03/2018 | President
On the occasion of the European Day for Remembrance of the Victims of Terrorism, Michele Nicoletti has paid tribute to the victims and survivors of terrorist attacks, and sent a message of solidarity and support.
09/03/2018 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee has proposed to the PACE to remove Turkish from PACE’s list of working languages. According to the committee, “the draconian reduction” of the Assembly’s budget for 2018 and 2019 “calls for drastic measures”.
08/03/2018 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
As Women’s Day is celebrated around the world, the Committee on Equality acknowledges the progress achieved towards greater equality between women and men while taking stock of the challenges that lie ahead.
08/03/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, former rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have strongly condemned the execution of Kiryl Kazachok.
01/03/2018 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Parliamentarians from Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Sweden and Andorra voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2017, according to statistics made public.