04/07/2025 | President
“Andorra's voice in the Council of Europe has always been strong and clear,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, addressing the General Council (the Parliament of Andorra) in plenary session today, during an official visit to the country. In this regard, he recalled that the Andorran...
03/07/2025 | President
“In 1975, the Helsinki Final Act was not just a diplomatic milestone. It was a moral statement: that the security of states depends on the security of people,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session today in Porto. That belief lives on, he...
03/07/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
According to the Migration Committee, which met on 24 June in Strasbourg, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in migration management must balance efficiency gains with protection of human rights “at all stages of the migration journey”. In adopting the report by Petri Honkonen (Finland, ALDE...
01/07/2025 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make an official visit to Andorra on 4 July. During his visit, he will meet the Head of the Government, the Speaker of the General Council (the Parliament of Andorra), the Minister of Foreign...
01/07/2025 | Monitoring
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Serbia, Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), has today made the following statement concerning the massive protest in Belgrade on 28 June 2025: “I am deeply concerned about the escalating tensions in...
30/06/2025 | Monitoring
Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD) and Yves Cruchten (Luxembourg, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, will make a fact-finding visit to Sofia on 2-3 July. They are due to meet the Speaker of the...
27/06/2025 | Session
Addresses by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abela, as well as the award of the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment to the Women of the Sun organisation were among the highlights of the summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly...
27/06/2025 | Monitoring
The monitoring rapporteurs for Georgia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Sabine Ćudić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, ALDE), have expressed their deep concern at the politically-motivated prosecution of opposition members and civil society...
26/06/2025 | Session
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked PACE for “real leadership” in its stand against Russian aggression and hailed Europe’s commitment to justice in an address to the Assembly just after the signature of an agreement to create a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against...
26/06/2025 | Session
PACE has called on all parties in the broader war taking place in the Middle East to de-escalate and to respect international law, and recalled the need to spare civilians and minimise their suffering and casualties. Approving a resolution based on a report by Ingjerd Schie Schou (Norway, EPP/CD...
26/06/2025 | Session
PACE today called on member states to fully comply with the instruments of international humanitarian law, maritime law and those relating to the protection of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Recalling the obligation to protect the right to life – as set out in the European Convention on...
26/06/2025 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today called on member states to strengthen the co-operation between public and private actors involved in migration management, whether in terms of first assistance, reception, or inclusion of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. According to PACE, the actors...