27/03/2017 | Monitoring
Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) and Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 28 to 30 March.
27/03/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Andrea Rigoni (ALDE, Italy), following his fact-finding visit to Minsk on 23-24 March 2017, called on the authorities to immediately release all those who have been detained in connection with the March demonstrations.
27/03/2017 | President
Addressing the press in St Petersburg, the PACE President this morning referred to the relationship between the Assembly and the Russian Parliament, expressing his conviction that dialogue must continue.
27/03/2017 | Election observation
Contestants in Bulgaria’s elections could reach out to voters freely, while the low-key campaign was generally characterised by public disillusionment with politics and election weariness, observers concluded.
27/03/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Volodymyr Ariev today strongly condemned the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators in Belarus and throughout Russia and called on the authorities of both countries to immediate release the journalists detained.
27/03/2017 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Russian Federation, Theodora Bakoyannis and Liliane Maury Pasquier expressed their concern at the arrest and detention of protesters following country-wide anti-corruption protests.
27/03/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs called on European governments "to take measures with a view to combating ageism, improving care for older persons and preventing their social exclusion".
24/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, rapporteur on “The implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights”, just ended successive fact-finding visits to Warsaw (20-21 March)and Budapest (22-23 March).
24/03/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adopting today a draft resolution based on a report by Andrej Hunko, the members of the Social Affairs committee called on European governments to make the fight against income equality a “political priority”.
24/03/2017 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt is to make an official visit to Malta from 29 to 30 March. He will meet notably with the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister.
23/03/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
George Loucaides, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, will make a fact-finding visit to Tunis from 27 to 30 March in connection with the preparation of his report on political transition in Tunisia.
23/03/2017 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt will take part in the 46th Plenary Session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA-CIS) in Saint Petersburg on 27 March.