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
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
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.
19/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
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.
18/04/2016 | Session
“2015 was a year of fear and insecurity in Europe. The conflict in eastern Ukraine and ongoing economic malaise were overshadowed by a sense of vulnerability to terrorist threats”, said Nils Muižnieks.
18/04/2016 | President
In April 2015, the world was horrified by the catastrophic loss of life during a single incident of a vessel capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea. Almost a year later reports emerge that a boat capsized with heavy loss of life.
18/04/2016 | Session
Migration, the response to terror and conflicts in Europe were once again major themes during the debate on the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee since the last session.