16/02/2016 | Parliamentary support
A Eastern Partnership conference on national parliaments’ role in improving freedom, independence, transparency and the diversity of the media, will be held in the House of Commons in London on 11 April 2016.
12/02/2016 | President
“The announcement of an agreement over the cessation of hostilities in Syria as well as on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population is a welcome and encouraging sign,” said Pedro Agramunt.
12/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On 26 January 2016, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination held a hearing on the work on combating hate speech of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI).
12/02/2016 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen and Valeriu Ghiletchi, PACE co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 15 to 18 February.
09/02/2016 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine by PACE, Jordi Xuclà and Axel Fischer, ending a visit to the country, have urged Ukraine’s parliamentarians to press ahead with constitutional changes on decentralisation.
09/02/2016 | President
Speaking to a Conference of Chairpersons of Committees of Foreign Affairs of National Parliaments in Sofia today, Pedro Agramunt called for “unity in the face of the many challenges we are confronted with”.
05/02/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Annette Groth, who is preparing a report on a stronger European response to the Syrian refugees crisis for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, is to visit Jordan and Lebanon from 8 to 13 February.
03/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE's rapporteur on international public health emergencies Silvia Bonet has welcomed the WHO decision declaring the Zika virus a Public Health Emergency. "This is an important step forward," she said.
03/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“We must raise awareness about the situation of intersex people, and act now to overcome the discrimination they routinely face,” said the Commissioner for Human Rights speaking at a Committee hearing.
02/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Sevinj Fataliyeva has suggested governments are “overlooking the most vulnerable” following a Europol report that thousands of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children have disappeared after arriving in Europe.
01/02/2016 | Monitoring
The committee welcomed the many reforms instigated in Montenegro since the adoption in January 2015 of Resolution 2030 on the electoral framework, the fight against corruption and the judiciary.
29/01/2016 | Session
The nine committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected this week their new Chairpersons: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Mogens Jensen.