17/07/2017 | Monitoring
Samad Seyidov and Maria Guzenina, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, will make a visit to Belgrade, Bujanovac and Preševo to monitor the implementation of Resolution on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia.
17/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius, rapporteur on ‘new threats to the rule of law in Council of Europe member States – selected examples’, expressed his deep alarm following the adoption of two new laws relating to the judiciary in Poland.
13/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the PACE, Yves Cruchten, has strongly condemned the execution of William Charles Morva in the US Federal State of Virginia, on 6 July.
13/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the PACE, Yves Cruchten, has strongly condemned the execution of two men – Masakatsu Nishikawa and Koichi Sumida – in Japan on 6 July 2017.
07/07/2017 | Monitoring
Co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey have expressed serious concern at the arrest of several prominent human rights defenders in Istanbul on 5 July, including Amnesty International Director İdil Eser.
07/07/2017 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed concern at the escalation of violence near Alkhani village in the Fuzili region, and regretted that this has led to casualties among which are civilians.
07/07/2017 | Transparency and Integrity
The body conducting an independent, external investigation into allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly has invited anyone wishing to provide evidence to contact its secretariat.
05/07/2017 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Parliamentarians from Andorra, Switzerland and Sweden voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2016, according to statistics made public today.
05/07/2017 | Monitoring
Georgia has made “considerable and consistent” progress over the last decade in honouring its promises to the Council of Europe, but a number of items remain to be addressed, PACE monitors have said.
05/07/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The EU's Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini has met with PACE's rapporteur on a Fourth Council of Europe summit, Michele Nicoletti, to discuss the prospects for such a summit in the context of EU-CoE relations.
03/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE's Legal Committee welcomes the Venice Commission’s "Rule of Law Checklist" - which introduces a new, uniform benchmark for measuring compliance with one of the founding principles of the Council of Europe.
30/06/2017 | News
A motion for dismissal of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Pedro Agramunt, has just been tabled by 158 component members of the Assembly belonging to 5 political groups and 36 national delegations.