11/09/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The town of Wisła will receive the PACE Flag of Honour, on Friday 11 September. Klaus Bühler, Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly will present this distinction to reward the European efforts of this city.
11/09/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Sopot will receive the Plaque of Honour of the PACE on Sunday 13 September. Johanna Schicker, former Member of the Parliamentary Assembly will present this distinction to reward the European efforts of this city.
11/09/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Governments should oblige pharmaceutical companies to ensure “absolute transparency regarding the real costs of research and development”, particularly in relation to the public research portion, the committee says.
11/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Michele Nicoletti and Tineke Strik welcomed the latest proposals to reform EU asylum policy, whilst calling on Monday’s meeting of the EU justice and home affairs council to prioritise protection of migrants' human rights.
11/09/2015 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, Jean-Claude Mignon and Jordi Xucla urged the Ukrainian authorities to make every efforts to ensure that the upcoming local elections in the country are as inclusive and pluralistic as possible.
10/09/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
In adopting a draft resolution unanimously on equality and shared parental responsibility, the members said that the role of fathers vis-à-vis their children needs to be better recognised and properly valued.
09/09/2015 | President
"This spiral of violence must stop and I call on all actors to take a step back," said PACE President Anne Brasseur gravely concerned about the recent terrorist attacks in Turkey.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The present refugee crisis has demonstrated the inadequacy of the current political and institutional instruments including the Dublin Regulation on which the asylum policies of the European Union are based.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Dublin system, the EU’s legal instrument for identifying the country responsible for examining individual asylum applications, “has collapsed and must be reformed as a matter of urgency”, has concluded the committee.
09/09/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A coherent overall EU migration policy should involve both countries of origin and transit, respecting human rights and avoiding a narrow emphasis on border control and security, PACE Committee on Migration said today.
09/09/2015 | Elections
The delegation was assured by the representatives of the Belarusian authorities, that all necessary measures will be undertaken to guarantee the transparency of the electoral process including during the voting on 11 October.
07/09/2015 | President
“The 300,000 refugees travelling through Europe is a significant number, but this is not an insurmountable figure for a continent as large and wealthy as Europe,” said Ms Brasseur at the end of a mission to New York.