25/10/2016 | Monitoring
Samad Seyidov and Maria Guzenina,co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, will make a fact-finding visit to Belgrade, to monitor the implementation of the resolution on the honouring of obligations and commitments.
21/10/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Being transgender is not an illness, and it is time that medical standards around the world reflect that,” said PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people Jonas Gunnarsson (Sweden, SOC).
17/10/2016 | Elections
Montenegro’s elections were held in a competitive environment and fundamental freedoms were generally respected in a campaign characterised by a lack of distinct domestic policy alternatives.
17/10/2016 | Elections
Montenegro’s elections were held in a competitive environment and fundamental freedoms were generally respected in a campaign characterised by a lack of distinct domestic policy alternatives.
14/10/2016 | Elections
A PACE delegation led by Aleksander Pociej will travel to Montenegro from 14 to 17 October to observe the parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA and the OSCE-ODIHR.
14/10/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee has called for the signing of a new trade agreement between the EU and Canada to be postponed – because it would “unacceptably restrict the powers of national parliaments to adopt legislation”.
14/10/2016 | Session
Policies must be developed to address the current decline in fertility, known as the “European demographic winter”, and curb the negative effects of population ageing, as declared today by PACE.
14/10/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
According to the report by Stella Kyriakides, unanimously adopted by the Social Affairs Committee on 11 October, even in the early 21st century, not all children in Europe enjoy equal access to healthcare services.
14/10/2016 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt congratulated António Guterres on his election as the Secretary General of the United Nations. "The unanimous vote in the General Assembly gives you a strong political mandate", Mr Agramunt said.
14/10/2016 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held this afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Twenty-two Assembly members took the floor.
14/10/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution, the committee urges Council of Europe member States to ensure strict environmental and public health regulations are applied to the exploration and exploitation of non-conventional hydrocarbons.
13/10/2016 | Session
“When one of our friends in the Council of Europe has a problem, we must morally stand beside them, but we must also help them,” said Ian Liddell-Grainger opening today’s current affairs debate.