06/03/2015 | Standing Committee
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects 3.3 million children and adolescents in the EU alone. According to the Assembly, meeting today in Paris at Standing Committee level, ensuring an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment of ADHD is essential.
06/03/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE has proposed a set of steps to be taken by member States to improve the democratic participation of diasporas in Europe, including giving foreigners the right to vote and stand in elections.
06/03/2015 | Standing Committee
PACE has expressed concern at “the impact on social and economic rights” of austerity measures imposed on certain eurozone states and called for greater transparency from the EU in such decisions on financial assistance.
06/03/2015 | Standing Committee
Several Council of Europe member States are still not implementing some Assembly recommendations aimed at securing “a fully independent and decently resourced judiciary” Standing Committee has concluded.
06/03/2015 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur will make an official visit to Serbia from 9 to 11 March 2015. Meetings are notably scheduled with the President of the Republic and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
05/03/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Tadeusz Iwinski (Poland, SOC), PACE for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, have ended a fact finding visit to the country (2-3 March 2015).
04/03/2015 | Parliamentary support
A first Seminar in the framework of the Eastern Partnership 2015-2017 will be held in Strasbourg on 19-20 March 2015, with the participation of 20 staff members from five countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
04/03/2015 | Parliamentary support
A regional seminar, organised in co-operation with the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, will take place on 26-27 March 2015 in Istanbul, on the theme: "Elected bodies: transparency of functioning and accountability".
04/03/2015 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Following a two-day visit to Germany, Ms Santerini has called for greater vigilance against movements such as Pegida and Legida, which spread the belief that people of different cultures and religions cannot live together in our countries.
03/03/2015 | President
“Time is running out to spare the life of Nadiia Savchenko,” PACE President said appealing to the Russian authorities to show compassion for the Ukrainian pilot turned parliamentarian who is on hunger strike in a Moscow prison.
03/03/2015 | President
I am shocked to see the reports of detention conditions in Yarl’s Wood, and the attitude by the guards at this British immigration detention centre for women,” PACE President Anne Brasseur said today.
02/03/2015 | President
“The absolute prohibition of torture, enshrined in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, is undoubtedly the cornerstone of the system of protection of human rights in Europe," said Anne Brasseur.