15/05/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"Young LGBT people must never be made to feel afraid to express their sexual orientation and gender identity", Jonas Gunnarsson said on the eve of the International Day against Homophobia.
15/05/2015 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly is to meet in Sarajevo on 22 May, ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina's six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers.
15/05/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A delegation of four members of the Assembly's Committee on Migration, together with two Dutch senators, is to make a visit on 18 May to the Schipol Detention Centre, where irregular migrants are held.
13/05/2015 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova by the Parliamentary Assembly are to visit the country from 13 to 16 May 2015.
12/05/2015 | Monitoring
“I deeply regret the deaths and injuries due to armed clashes that have occurred in the last few days in ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’, on its border with Kosovo”, today said Robert Walter.
09/05/2015 | President
Since its accession to the Council of Europe in 1999, the Georgian people demonstrated on numerous occasions their commitment to our common European values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, said Anne Brasseur.
09/05/2015 | President
"Working together to consolidate democracy, tolerance and living together is the best tribute we can pay to the victims and heroes of the Second World War," PACE President said today at a ceremony to mark the end of WWII.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski are deeply concerned by the sentencing of opposition leader Faraj Kerimli, to six and a half years of prison. They called on the authorities to develop an environment favourable to political pluralism.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu, PACE rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, took stock of the latest developments in the country, at the end of a fact-finding visit to Istanbul, Şanlıurfa and Ankara (30 April-4 May).
07/05/2015 | Election observation
The elections of 7 June will be a crucial moment for political life. Citizens will have a genuine choice of political options, which include "the proposal of the ruling party to change the Constitution and switch to a presidential system"
05/05/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur will make an official visit to Georgia on 7-8 May 2015. In Tbilisi, she is due to meet the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of Parliament and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
05/05/2015 | President
“The European Flag, which depicts a circle, symbol of unity, means a lot. It stands for the ambition and the reality of European unification,” said Anne Brasseur, on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the Council of Europe.