03/06/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur will be visiting Rome tomorrow, where she will meet Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic, and Laura Boldrini, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
03/06/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee, meeting in Bishkek, is concerned by the growing number of cases of missing persons reported in the areas of military action in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as well as in Crimea.
02/06/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
On 4 June the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Committee on Political Affairs will hold a seminar in Rome to discuss national and international experience in codes of conduct for parliamentarians.
02/06/2015 | Parliamentary support
A conference on the “Implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries”, to be held in Paris on 4-5 June, will address the challenge of applying election legislation and Council of Europe standards.
02/06/2015 | Elections
A conference on the “Implementation of the right to free elections in Eastern Partnership countries”, to be held in Paris on 4-5 June, will address the challenge of applying election legislation and Council of Europe standards.
01/06/2015 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee deeply regrets Russia's "manifest lack of progress" in meeting Assembly demands over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea, but urges re-established dialogue.
01/06/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly has condemned the alarming rise in racism, xenophobia and intolerance in Europe, at its meeting in Paris.
01/06/2015 | Monitoring
The committee has made a series of recommendations to the authorities of Azerbaijan as part of its ongoing monitoring of the country – including steps to reinforce democratic checks and balances in the system.
01/06/2015 | Monitoring
Frano Matušić, PACE’s rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, is in Sofia on 2-5 June for high-level meetings with members of the government, opposition and judiciary.
29/05/2015 | Monitoring
“We express our concerns regarding the new legislation on ‘undesirable’ foreign organisations in Russia which endangers the right of free expression of the political opposition, the media and civil society,” said the co-rapporteurs.
28/05/2015 | President
“Following the arrests of leading FIFA officials, football’s global body is once again shaken by a scandal. It is imperative that FIFA continue to reform the governance of this organisation,” said Anne Brasseur.
28/05/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, PACE General rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, welcomed the decision taken yesterday by the US state of Nebraska to abolish the death penalty.