21/10/2015 | President
Speaking before the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Anne Brasseur made a plea for solidarity of regions and municipalities to tackle “Europe’s number 1 challenge: the refugee and migratory crisis.”
21/10/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Maryvonne Blondin will be paying a working visiting to Norway on 22 and 23 October in the framework of the preparation of her report on "Guaranteeing equal rights and protecting women against violence in the armed forces".
20/10/2015 | Elections
A 13-member PACE delegation will participate, from 22 to 26 October 2015, in the observation mission of the local elections in Ukraine, scheduled for 25 October. It will consist of 57 observers from 25 countries.
19/10/2015 | Monitoring
At the end of their fact-finding visit to Tbilisi, the co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Boriss Cilevics and Kerstin Lundgren, urged the ruling majority and opposition to find a mutually acceptable compromise on the electoral system.
18/10/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur, speaking in a debate on “The moral and economic imperative for fairer, smarter and more humane migration”, presented a blueprint to address the migration crisis at a pan-European level.
16/10/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur has written to President Ilham Aliyev expressing her “deepest concerns” over the deterioration of the situation in Azerbaijan as regards democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
14/10/2015 | Monitoring
"I welcome the decision of the Monegasque authorities to set up a technical working group about the revised European Social Charter,“ said Jordi Xuclà speaking on his return from a visit to the Principality.
12/10/2015 | Elections
Belarus needs to reform its legal framework to ensure a thoroughly competitive political environment. This is a key condition for the long-term democratic stability of the country, said Reha Denemeç, Head of the PACE Delegation.
10/10/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur strongly condemned the terrorist attack near the main railway station in Ankara, before a rally of the Turkish opposition, which left some eighty people dead and many wounded.
09/10/2015 | Elections
A 10-member delegation led by Reha Denemeç begins a four-day visit to Belarus to observe the conduct of the presidential election, alongside observers from the OSCE-PA and the OSCE-ODIHR.
09/10/2015 | Monitoring
Jordi Xuclà, former rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Monaco, will travel to the Principality, on behalf of the Monitoring Committee, for a fact-finding visit on the follow-up of the implementation of PACE Resolution 2052 (2015).
09/10/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Death penalty does not reduce crime, and merely lowers our society to the level of criminals. There has been some progress towards the universal abolition of this punishment. There is still room for further improvement.