25/01/2018 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Noting that student mobility assists States’ education systems and economies, for the inclusion of students provides greater diversity and a broader range of skills, PACE Committee on migration urged to adopt measures to this end.
25/01/2018 | Session
Alexander Van der Bellen reiterated Austria’s attachment to the Council of Europe. “Without the principles this organisation stands for,” he said, “we cannot have the Europe that we all want.”
25/01/2018 | Session
Children traumatised by armed conflict need specialised support to re-build trust and create “new positive life experiences”, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly said today during a debate.
25/01/2018 | Session
PACE has decided to ratify the credentials of the Andorran parliamentary delegation – challenged because of a lack of gender balance – noting that the delegation has undertaken to comply with the Rules.
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 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.