04/06/2025 | Monitoring
Lord David Blencathra (United Kingdom, ECPA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, will make a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul from 10 to 13 June...
03/06/2025 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
A launch meeting for the new PACE Parliamentary Alliance for Good Governance and Integrity in Sport took place in Trondheim, Norway, dedicated to the theme of “rebuilding trust” in the integrity of sport and promoting the values of fair play and transparency in the bodies that govern world sport...
02/06/2025 | Election observation
Yesterday’s presidential run-off in Poland was competitive and well managed, but the longstanding polarisation between the country’s two main political camps and media bias contributed to an intensely contested campaign amidst ongoing controversies over the independence of some key electoral...
02/06/2025 | Prizes
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly presented the third 'Human Rights in Motion' Award at the Kraków Film Festival on Sunday, 1 June. The international jury selected The Gardener, the Buddhist and the Spy, a documentary by Håvard Bustnes, as the winner. The Human Rights in Motion Award...
30/05/2025 | Prizes
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will mark the 70th anniversary of the Europe Prize with a conference and a special ceremony organised with the municipality of Donostia/San Sebastián (Spain) on Friday 6 June 2025. In the morning, members of the PACE Sub-Committee on the Europe...
30/05/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“I express in the strongest possible terms my deep concern and unequivocal condemnation of the recent decision by an Egyptian court to suspend the operation of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, confiscate its property, and expel its monastic community. This act is a direct affront to...
30/05/2025 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Committee on Political Affairs, meeting on 27 May in Chania (Greece), expressed concern about the dramatic situation of Ukrainian prisoners of war, “subjected to summary executions, widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment, amounting to war crimes”. Adopting the report by...
27/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Young people are not merely seeking permission to be involved in political decision-making but are already acting, raising their voices and demanding recognition for their work to shape the future they will inherit, participants at a PACE parliamentary round table in Valletta have heard. Youth...
26/05/2025 | President
“The Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a turning point in our post-war history. It is not just a geopolitical crisis – it is a moral one,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the PACE Political Affairs Committee meeting in Chania, Greece...
25/05/2025 | President
“I welcome the prisoner exchange taking place this Sunday, the third and final phase of a ‘1,000 for 1,000’ exchange negotiated last week in Istanbul by Russia and Ukraine. I hope that this important step will help build trust and genuine cooperation between all parties to the conflict. It must...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Malta, welcomed “the member states’ political and financial commitment”, which resulted in an increase of the Council of Europe's financial resources within the framework of the 2024-2025 biennial budget, while underlining that “the Organisation's...
23/05/2025 | Women@PACE
The former President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was the guest of honour at a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group which took place in Malta ahead of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee, sharing her experience of “breaking the glass ceiling” in public life. Ms...