09/10/2015 | President
“After a plethora of scandals, and following the latest corruption allegations, FIFA’s Ethics Committee has at last reacted with the suspensions of Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jérôme Valcke,” said Anne Brasseur.
09/10/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
During his visit to the Palestinian Territories from 6 to 7 October, the rapporteur Jordi Xuclà expressed concern about clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli settlers.
09/10/2015 | Monitoring
Boriss Cilevics and Kerstin Lundgren, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the PACE, are to make a three-day fact-finding visit to Tbilisi from 12 to 14 October 2015.
07/10/2015 | Elections
A seven-member cross-party delegation was in Ankara on 5 and 6 October, at the invitation of the Turkish delegation, for a pre-electoral visit ahead of the early parliamentary elections on 1 November;
06/10/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Jordi Xuclà, rapporteur on the “Evaluation of the Partnership for Democracy with the Palestinian National Council”, has started a fact-finding visit to the Palestinian Territories today, which will continue tomorrow.
05/10/2015 | Elections
“Yesterday, voting was transparent, and voters made their choice freely among a large number of contestants,” said Meritxell Mateu Pi, Head of the PACE Delegation, regarding the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan.
02/10/2015 | Session
The parliamentarians said that preventive work with young amateur and semi-professional athletes and the fight against trafficking “should be among the priorities of the anti-doping strategy”.
02/10/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Negotiators at the forthcoming Paris climate change talks are being urged to make use of an existing 11-point plan drawn up last year by PACE, as a “last chance to close in on a deal”.
02/10/2015 | Session
PACE is urging Europe’s governments to ensure that fathers can play an equal part in the upbringing of their children, pointing out that the role of dads, "needs to be be better recognised and properly valued”.
02/10/2015 | Elections
A delegation led by Andreas Gross will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Turkey on 5-6 October, to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the early parliamentary elections on 1 November.
02/10/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Agustín Conde will make a fact-finding visit to Pristina on 5-6 October, in the context of the preparation of his report on the situation in Kosovo and the role of the Council of Europe.
02/10/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The committee unanimously adopted a report on “Promoting city-to-city co-operation in the field of culture”, prepared by Alexander [Earl of] Dundee, saying that it was necessary to re-energise democracy at grassroots level.