04/10/2016 | President
Addressing the Serbian National Assembly today, Pedro Agramunt commended Serbia’s approach to the refugee crisis, stressing that a year ago, the country was particularly affected by a massive arrival of migrants.
03/10/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
At a meeting in Lviv, Serhiy Kiral and Lord Prescott called on the '47' to take an over-arching leadership role in reinforcing the implementation of the Paris climate change agreement.
30/09/2016 | Elections
An 11-member delegation of the PACE, led by Ian Liddell-Grainger, will travel to Morocco from 5 to 8 October, at the invitation of its authorities, to observe the conduct of the parliamentary elections.
30/09/2016 | Elections
A 27-member delegation of the PACE, led by Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), will travel to Georgia from 6 to 9 October to observe the conduct of the parliamentary elections. A joint press conference is scheduled on Sunday 9 October.
29/09/2016 | Elections
A pre-electoral delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) visited Chisinau to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the Presidential election to be held on 30 October 2016.
29/09/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE rapporteur Sevinj Fataliyeva has called on European governments to step up their action to protect and support children concerned by the armed conflict in Syria, in particular in Aleppo.
28/09/2016 | President
Speaking at the end of an official visit to Iceland (26-27 September), PACE President Pedro Agramunt praised the Icelandic authorities for the extent of their fulfillment of Council of Europe standards.
28/09/2016 | President
“The world has lost a man of dialogue, of principle and of conviction. Israel has lost one of its prominent figures. Our Assembly has lost a friend,” declared PACE President Pedro Agramunt, following the death of Shimon Peres.
28/09/2016 | President
Pedro Agramunt will make an official visit to Serbia on 3-4 October, during which he is due to meet notably the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
27/09/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
A survivor of the terror attack on Utøya island has told PACE parliamentarians at a #NoHateNoFear event in Iceland of his experience – and how it inspired him to work to counter extremism.
27/09/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Icelandic leaders welcomed the Political Affairs Committee to Reykjavik, speaking out strongly in favour of the Council of Europe’s core principles as the most effective way to counter hate-speech, extremism and terrorism.
27/09/2016 | Elections
The Bureau of the PACE, upon the invitation of the Azerbaijani authorities, decided to send an ad hoc committee to conduct an assessment mission of the 26 September Constitutional referendum in Azerbaijan.