30/01/2018 | Parliamentary support
The first regional seminar of the Parliamentary Network on Diaspora Policies, launched in Lisbon in September 2017, will be organised by the PACE, in Rabat on 8 February, at the invitation of the Moroccan Parliament.
26/01/2018 | Monitoring
“Over the last decade Georgia has made considerable and consistent progress in honouring its accession commitments and membership obligations,” said co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia.
26/01/2018 | Session
In adopting a resolution today, based on a report by Volker Ullrich, PACE recommended to introduce, in the international organisations, “reasonable alternative means of legally protecting” the rights of staff.
26/01/2018 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held this morning a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Twenty parliamentarians took the floor.
26/01/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The Investigation Body set up to look into allegations of corruption made against certain members and/or former members of the Assembly has met on 22-25 January to take oral evidence from several witnesses.
26/01/2018 | Session
PACE has called for a ban on trade in items used in executions or torture – urging all 47 Council of Europe member States to apply the approach of the EU, which bans some items and operates a case-by-case licensing system for others.
25/01/2018 | Session
“Europe should play a major role in the sponsorship and resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” said PACE today, at the end of an urgent debate held on the basis of a report by Titus Corlăţean.
25/01/2018 | Session
“The Holocaust gives us the ugliest, most appalling and disgraceful example of what happens when human kind loses sight of the fundamental values of humanity,” Michele Nicoletti recalled at a ceremony.
25/01/2018 | Session
“In 2017 the human rights situation continued to deteriorate in many European countries. Old crises deepened, new crises emerged and commitment to human rights values and standards seemed to weaken”, said Nils Muižnieks.
25/01/2018 | Session
PACE has adopted an annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2017 and making a series of assessments of the progress of the countries subject to its monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue.
25/01/2018 | Secretary General of the Assembly
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki met with his counterpart from the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the CIS and from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
25/01/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
PACE’s Political Affairs Committee has urged European countries to co-operate and co-ordinate more closely to stop Daesh and other terrorist groups from accessing funding. Approving a draft resolution by Phil Wilson (United Kingdom, SOC), the committee said such groups were ready to use all...