25/06/2015 | Session
"According to UN officials, the war in Syria has unleashed the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Turkey, a neighbouring country, hosts two millions Syrians,” said Reha Denemeç opening the current affairs debate.
25/06/2015 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Axel Fischer and Sir Alan Meale, have appealed to police as well as protesters to show maximum restraint to ensure unhindered peaceful protests.
25/06/2015 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held this morning a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Sixteen parliamentarians took the floor during the debate.
25/06/2015 | Session
Anne Brasseur today announced that the Assembly‘s film “The Lake”, which encourages young people to speak up about sexual abuse as part of the ONE-in-FIVE campaign, is the winner of the EACA Care Award for 2015.
25/06/2015 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Anne Brasseur today announced that the Assembly‘s film “The Lake”, which encourages young people to speak up about sexual abuse as part of the ONE-in-FIVE campaign, is the winner of the EACA Care Award for 2015.
25/06/2015 | Session
The problem of persons reported missing during the conflict in Ukraine can only be solved through the “joint efforts of all sides”, the Parliamentary Assembly said in conclusion to a plenary session debate.
25/06/2015 | Session
The Assembly called on European governments for new socio-economic, educational and fiscal policies, "combined with a targeted budget allocation", to safeguard the benefits of the European Social Model to future generations.
25/06/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur expressed her concern over draft amendments to the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic, which would endanger key democratic principles as had been revealed by the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR in their recent joint opinion.
24/06/2015 | Session
PACE has condemned what it called “the crackdown on human rights in Azerbaijan” and called for an end to the “systemic repression” of human rights defenders, the media and those critical of the government.
24/06/2015 | Session
Joining the European Union “is the only hope for our country”, said Mladen Ivanic, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, speaking today in an address to the Parliamentary Assembly.
24/06/2015 | Session
PACE – while keeping in place all sanctions against the Russian delegation – has decided not to annul the delegation’s credentials at this time, “as a signal of its commitment to an open and constructive dialogue”.
24/06/2015 | Session
Two years after it raised in a resolution concerns about recent laws in Hungary, the Assembly today resolved to end its “special examination” of the country while urging continued dialogue with the Council of Europe.