20/04/2016 | Session
The EU-Turkey Agreement “raises several serious human rights issues” the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has said, following a joint debate during its plenary session.
19/04/2016 | Election observation
A 18-member delegation of the PACE, led by Volodymyr Ariev, will travel to Serbia from 22 to 25 April to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the OSCE-ODIHR.
19/04/2016 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Committee on Culture and Education believes that in framing their integration policies governments should involve the educational and cultural networks of diaspora communities to a much greater extent.
19/04/2016 | Session
“The Council of Europe and the European Union are built on the same foundations and the same ideals,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, addressing today the Assembly.
19/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee has pointed to “a climate of pervading fear in an atmosphere of personalisation of power” in the Chechen Republic and said that recommendations it made remain “largely unimplemented”.
19/04/2016 | Session
“Turkey is an inseparable part of Europe,” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said today. He stressed Turkey saw the Council of Europe as one of its main partners in bringing about future reforms.
19/04/2016 | Session
The 2016 Europe Prize - the highest level of the Prize which is awarded each year by the PACE to the town most active in promoting the European ideal - has been awarded to the town of Girona.
19/04/2016 | Session
Thorbjørn Jagland today answered the parliamentarians’ questions during a question and answer exercise as part of the Parliamentary Assembly’s spring session.
19/04/2016 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly today elected Marko Bošnjak as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Slovenia. Mr Bošnjak has obtained an absolute majority of votes cast.
19/04/2016 | Session
In adopting a resolution based on a report by Jacques Legendre, the Assembly welcomed the development by the '47' of a European Framework of Competences for a culture of democracy and intercultural dialogue.
19/04/2016 | Session
The Assembly has spelled out a series of measures to prevent the radicalisation of children by fighting the root causes. Prevention is key to stopping young people being drawn to violent extremism, PACE said.
19/04/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Participants at a joint Parliamentary Assembly hearing on “The conflict in Eastern Ukraine: political and human rights concerns” agreed that it was important to keep the situation in Ukraine high on the agenda.