18/02/2016 | President
Following yesterday’s terrorist attack in Ankara, PACE President Pedro Agramunt expressed the Parliamentary Assembly’s deepest sympathies to the people of Turkey and the Turkish authorities.
18/02/2016 | President
José Manuel García-Margallo yesterday met with PACE President Pedro Agramunt. The minister expressed his interest in some of the main projects that the new President intends to implement during his mandate.
17/02/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore the new death sentence handed down by a Belarusian court.
17/02/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore the new death sentence handed down by a Belarusian court.
17/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Antisemitism and islamophobia may differ but their common roots are in hatred and intolerance and we must spare no effort in tackling both,” said Milena Santerini, speaking in a round table in Brussels today.
17/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“I took note with great interest of steps taken by WHO with a view to increasing the accessibility of affordable and innovative medicines,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), at the end of a visit to WHO headquarters in Geneva on 15 February.
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”.