29/03/2022 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of PACE has welcomed the “continuous and marked progress” made by Georgia in honouring its Council of Europe membership obligations and commitments since 2014, but added that a number of shortcomings and concerns remain. Approving a draft resolution today, based on a...
25/03/2022 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Turkey from 21 to 24 March as co-rapporteurs, PACE monitors John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) have welcomed the open and frank dialogue with the Turkish authorities when discussing the Assembly’s latest resolutions, including Resolution...
21/03/2022 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Turkey John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) undertook a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 21-24 March 2022 to assess follow-up to the Assembly’s resolutions, latest developments and the implementation of rulings of the European...
04/02/2022 | Monitoring
PACE’s co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia have said the EU’s “unfulfilled promise” on opening accession negotiations with the country has “fostered political instability in the country, uncertainty and disillusion” – and encouraged the authorities, opposition and...
04/02/2022 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified by the Monitoring Committee, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, underlined the determination of the authorities to strengthen the independence of the...
18/01/2022 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Serbia, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC), reacted to the outcome of the constitutional referendum held on 16 January 2022: “We welcome the approval, by 59% of the voters, of the constitutional amendments aimed at...
17/12/2021 | Monitoring
Following their visit to the country from 8 to 10 December 2021, the PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlatean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), expressed their serious concern at the extremely polarised political climate in the country which is foreclosing any...
15/12/2021 | Monitoring
The PACE Monitoring Committee has welcomed the fact that Armenia has “successfully emerged from the serious political crisis triggered by the outcome in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” as well as its pursuit of reforms and the launch of new projects since the change of political leadership in 2018...
15/12/2021 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee today adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2021 and making a series of assessments of the countries under monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of countries that are currently subject to the procedure for...
10/12/2021 | Monitoring
The rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Richard Bacon (United Kingdom, EC/DA) have expressed their serious concern about the state of health of Saleh Rustamov, activist of the Azerbaijani...
06/12/2021 | Monitoring
Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 8 to 10 December 2021. Discussions will...
25/11/2021 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Poland of the Monitoring Committee, Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson (Sweden, SOC) and Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), have today expressed their deep concern at yesterday’s ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human...