14/01/2016 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and its intervention resulting in a military conflict in eastern Ukraine have generated a climate of distrust against a background of a “war of sanctions”, the committee said.
14/01/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Marietta Karamanli, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, said they were appalled by the death sentence on Henadz Yakavitski handed down by the Minsk Regional Court in Belarus.
13/01/2016 | President
“Integration should be the top priority in dealing with migrants and refugees,” said Anne Brasseur, ending a visit to Berlin and Golzow, while praising Germany’s 'humanist response' to the current crisis.
12/01/2016 | President
“Terrorism has once again struck one of our member States today. I deplore and strongly condemn the bomb attack in Istanbul. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of the victims”.
11/01/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Examples of the positive impact that the European Convention on Human Rights has so far had within the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, parties to the Convention, have been compiled in an information document upon the request of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ (France, SOC), Rapporteur on the...
11/01/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"I firmly condemn the mass sexual assaults perpetrated on 31 December in Germany and Switzerland", said Sahiba Gafarova, Parliamentary Assembly General Rapporteur on Violence against Women.
07/01/2016 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur will make a working visit on 11-12 January to Berlin and Golzow, where she is due to meet the Minister of State for Migration, Refugees and Integration and the German delegation to PACE.
31/12/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur deplored that 2015 was a difficult year for Council of Europe values and expressed the hope that 2016 would be marked by the enjoyment of human rights and respect for the rule of law.
26/12/2015 | Monitoring
During his visit to Chisinau, Stefan Schennach looked into the detention conditions in Prison 13 of Vlad Filat, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, and Grigore Petrenco, former PACE member.
22/12/2015 | President
I call on my parliamentary colleagues in Poland not to enact – precipitously – legislation relating to the Constitutional Tribunal which may seriously undermine the Rule of Law,” said Anne Brasseur.
19/12/2015 | President
"At last the UN Security Council has the Syrian patient on the operating table" PACE President Anne Brasseur said, "and now it has to work out the cure to save the country."
18/12/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE President Anne Brasseur and Thierry Mariani, Chairperson of its Committee on migration, refugees and displaced persons, today called for better regulation and monitoring of immigration detention.