25/01/2016 | President
The Spaniard Pedro Agramunt (EPP/CD) has been elected PACE President for a mandate of one year, renewable once. He succeeds Anne Brasseur, who has occupied the post since January 2014.
25/01/2016 | Session
The credentials of the Moldovan delegation to the PACE were challenged on procedural grounds at the opening of the Assembly’s session. Making the challenge, Jordi Xuclà said the Moldovan list was “incomplete”.
25/01/2016 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held this afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the Winter Session agenda. Sixteen Assembly members took the floor.
25/01/2016 | Session
Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE) urged her fellow parliamentarians to deal with current challenges by drawing inspiration from the founding values of the Council of Europe – the European Convention on Human Rights – as she presented the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee...
22/01/2016 | President
“Faced with an unprecedented displacement challenge, one would expect Europe to show a surge of solidarity. Unfortunately, what we see is not Europe’s friendliest face", said Anne Brasseur.
22/01/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The death of a patient in Rennes during a clinical trial of a new medicine shows, once again, the importance of ensuring absolute transparency of all clinical test results,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier.
21/01/2016 | President
Anne Brasseur, has called on the authorities to take concrete steps to restore citizens’ confidence in institutions, to address widespread corruption and to ensure the integrity of public officials and judicial authorities.
19/01/2016 | President
“Yesterday I received a letter informing me of the decision of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation not to submit the credentials of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly”, Anne Brasseur said.
18/01/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Michele Nicoletti will conduct a fact-finding visit to Kyiv on 19-20 January, in the context of the preparation of his report on “Corruption as a governance regime: a barrier to institutional efficiency and progress”.
15/01/2016 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly has issued a call for nominations for the 2016 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which will be awarded for the fourth consecutive year on 10 October next in Strasbourg.
15/01/2016 | Prizes
The deadline for Mayors to submit candidatures for the Europe Prize – a series of awards sponsored by PACE which honour towns and cities for upholding the European ideal – has been extended by a week
15/01/2016 | Monitoring
"Yesterday’s attack on the police headquarters in Çınar that left six people dead, including three children, and 39 wounded, is a new, unacceptable upsurge of violence in south-east Turkey," said the co-rapporteurs.