04/09/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Bergen auf Rügen will receive the Plaque of Honour of the PACE on 5 September. Marlene Rupprecht, PACE Honorary Member, will present this distinction to reward the European efforts of this city.
02/09/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur has urged fellow parliamentarians to demand greater solidarity from governments in dealing with the challenge of migration, warning that “we are sleepwalking to disaster if we do not work together”.
01/09/2015 | President
Seven-and-a-half-year sentence for Khadija Ismayilova raises serious concerns, given the systemic problems with the lack of independence of the judiciary and fairness of trials in Azerbaijan, said the President.
28/08/2015 | President
It is intolerable to see that refugees and asylum seekers who have managed to escape war and conflict have lost their lives, in such inhumane conditions, due to the criminal activities of traffickers, said Anne Brasseur.
28/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur will travel to New York from 1 to 4 September to address the 4th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the United Nations.
27/08/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Michele Nicoletti today expressed his welcome for the German government’s announcement that it will stop sending Syrian asylum seekers back to the country through which they first entered the EU.
26/08/2015 | Secretary General of the Assembly
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki joined his counterparts from the NATO and OSCE Parliamentary Assemblies, David Hobbs and Spencer Oliver, to discuss co-operation between the three bodies.
25/08/2015 | Prizes
Russian human rights defender Ludmilla Alexeeva, the grassroots NGO "Women for Afghan Women" and the Balkan NGO "Youth Initiative for Human Rights" have been shortlisted for the 2015 Václav Havel Prize.
25/08/2015 | President
“The sentencing of Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko on charges of terrorism, respectively to 20 and 10 years in prison, appears to be manifestly excessive," says PACE President Anne Brasseur.
24/08/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Robert Biedron, former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, will present the Plaque of Honour to the town of Ternopil (Ukraine) during a ceremony on 28 August.
23/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur welcomed the release of six political prisoners by the Belarusian authorities but expressed her continuing concern about the political orientation of leaders.
21/08/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Daphné Dumery will be visiting the headquarters of Frontex, the EU’s border agency, in Warsaw on 28 August, in the context of her report on “The Mediterranean Sea: a front door to irregular migration”.