25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee today welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ decision to hold a 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe in May 2023 and said that the organisation emerging from it should “better respond to citizens’ expectations in terms of openness, transparency...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Council of Europe member States should recommit to the values, principles and standards of the Organisation at the highest political level, PACE has said – pointing out that these are more relevant than ever when they are being “openly challenged”. In a resolution based on a report by Laima...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
“Today, we realise more than ever how important it is to stand united in our fight for a just and fair Europe, where democracy, human rights and the rule of law prevail. In addressing and resolving pressing global challenges, multilateralism is key. Together we must strongly advocate for the...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee welcomed the efforts of the Jordanian Parliament in striving to comply with the political commitments of a partner for democracy, six years after obtaining this status with PACE, “despite the internal and external challenges the country is facing”. Adopting a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting today in Reykjavik, is worried about the shortages of medical supplies that have increased dramatically before, during and since the Covid-19 pandemic, due to stockpiling, restrictions on exports, closed borders, and lockdowns. The parliamentarians denounced a...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Reykjavik, underlined the importance of ensuring that the key institutions and mechanisms of democracy function properly during health emergencies, with particular attention to parliaments, elections, local democracy and civil society organisations...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Laws aimed at combating Covid “might be used to further restrict the rights and fundamental freedoms of civil society actors”, PACE has warned. Approving a resolution based on the report by Margreet De Boer (Netherlands, SOC), the Assembly said Covid restrictions had had a “deleterious effect” on...
25/11/2022 | Standing Committee
Europe can learn “useful lessons” from the experience of prisons during the Covid pandemic, continuing to use alternatives to detention to reduce the prison population and ease overcrowding, according to PACE. In a resolution based on a report by Givi Mikanadze (Georgia, SOC), the Assembly said...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 of the Assembly’s leading members, met in Dublin on Tuesday 31st May 2022. There were welcome addresses by the Speakers of both houses of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting today in Dublin, called on member States to fully integrate a gender equality perspective in legislation, policies, programmes and infrastructure, that cater for the needs of migrant people. In adopting unanimously a resolution today, based on the report by Petra...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Dublin today, has expressed its concern about harassment and violence perpetrated by anti-abortion activists in many member States, targeting persons who want to protect access to free and safe abortions. According to the resolution unanimously adopted today...
31/05/2022 | Standing Committee
Addiction to prescribed medicines is the result of an “insidious and gradual process of giving up control of one’s own life for the sake of relief” provided by the prescribed medicine, the Standing Committee said. Such addiction, it added, is a “systemic social problem that requires a holistic...