18/06/2015 | Prizes
On 22 June, the Parliamentary Assembly will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Europe Prize, by bringing together mayors from the towns which have been awarded the Prize since it was created in 1955.
16/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At its meeting on 3 June, the committee was informed that Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of FRONTEX, had declined the invitation for an exchange of views on the challenges with regard to irregular migration across the Mediterranean Sea.
16/06/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur, speaking at the end of a high-profile visit to refugee centres on the Syrian border, has highlighted Turkey’s “extraordinary welcome” for Syrian refugees – and urged other European countries to do more to help.
15/06/2015 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Yerevan, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Axel Fischer and Alan Meale, welcomed the intention of the authorities to address some of Armenia’s systemic deficiencies via constitutional reform.
11/06/2015 | President
“Politicians must break the negative stereotypes and destroy the myths about the dangers of migration”, said Anne Brasseur, speaking at the end of a visit to UN institutions in Geneva.
10/06/2015 | Parliamentary support
A regional conference on awareness raising about the security of journalists will be held on 12 June in Kyiv, in cooperation with the PACE Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society.
10/06/2015 | Bureau
A delegation of leading PACE members is to visit Turkish refugee centres on the border with Syria to see at first hand Turkey’s efforts to deal with the large numbers of refugees fleeing conflict in the region.
10/06/2015 | Elections
Elections are the expression and cornerstone of democracy and they remain a necessary but not sufficient condition for democracy to thrive”, concluded the participants attending the conference on implementation of the right to free elections.
10/06/2015 | Parliamentary support
Elections are the expression and cornerstone of democracy and they remain a necessary but not sufficient condition for democracy to thrive”, concluded the participants attending the conference on implementation of the right to free elections.
09/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik, rapporteur on “Countries of transit: meeting new migration and asylum challenges” on behalf of PACE Migration Committee, will make a fact-finding visit to Morocco from 9 to 10 June.
08/06/2015 | Elections
The Turkish elections were characterised by high participation and a wide choice among strong and active parties, but the 10 per cent threshold limited political pluralism, international election observers say.
08/06/2015 | Monitoring
Axel Fischer and Alan Meale co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the monitoring of Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to Yerevan from 9 to 12 June 2015.