12/08/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“I am appalled by the killings of five Al Jazeera journalists, including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif, in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital last Sunday,” said Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE...
07/08/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabina Cudic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have strongly condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli to two years' imprisonment. " This sentence is disproportionate, clearly politically motivated, and an example...
05/08/2025 | President
Speaking at Birkenau, the PACE President, Theodoros Rousopoulos, underlined the Assembly’s strong commitment to remembrance, calling for truth, no matter how painful. “We must not cover the truth — not in images, not in words, not in history,” he said. “Because a masked past will soon fade out...
01/08/2025 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Georgios Stamatis (Greece, EPP/CD), PACE General Rapporteur on Roma and Travellers, made the following statement on the eve of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti: “On 2 August we honour the memory of the 4300 Roma and Sinti men, women and children murdered in Auschwitz...
31/07/2025 | President
Warning that “the serious politician is losing ground to the populist”, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged politicians to return to the values of trust in order to retain public support during an address to Speakers of Parliament from around the world. In a speech yesterday to the...
31/07/2025 | Monitoring
Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), the PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, have welcomed the adoption of a law to restore the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies. "The swift drafting and adoption of this law show that the presidential...
28/07/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
PACE's rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East, Dora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD), made the following statement today: “The encouraging news that some humanitarian aid is reaching Gaza is overshadowed by the grim reality of what Gaza has become: a landscape of death and devastation. 661...
24/07/2025 | Monitoring
Damien Cottier (Switzerland, ALDE) and Saara-Sofia Sirén (Finland, EPP/CD), the monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), have expressed their deep concern at the adoption and subsequent signing into force of the law that strips Ukraine’s...
24/07/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on The political consequences of the Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine, ending a visit to the country, said that “yesterday's meeting held in Istanbul between Russian and...
11/07/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza", made the following statement today: “I am deeply concerned by the recent...
09/07/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), today made the following statement: “On the eve of the eleventh anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment attributing...
07/07/2025 | Parliamentary support
The fourth session of an ongoing high-level dialogue between the Council of Europe and Ukrainian partners took place in Lviv on 3-4 July 2025 on the topic of good democratic governance in Ukraine, with a focus on improving the legal framework in the country for multi-level governance and...