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Poland: information note by the co-rapporteurs following their fact-finding visit

30/05/2023 | Monitoring

The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has declassified an information note on "The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Poland" following the fact-finding visit of the co...

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PACE Türkiye monitors react to recent police raids in the country

27/04/2023 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), have reacted to recent police raids in the country targeting politicians, lawyers, journalists and civil society...

Lachin
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The Lachin corridor: statement by the PACE monitors for Azerbaijan and Armenia

26/04/2023 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Ian Liddell-Granger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), and the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana...

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PACE co-rapporteurs make periodic review visit to the Netherlands

17/04/2023 | Monitoring

Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Stéphanie Krisper (Austria, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic review of the Netherlands, will carry out a fact-finding visit to the country on 18 and 19 April 2023 to assess how far it is...

Georgia is at a crossroads on its path to European integration, say PACE monitors

04/04/2023 | Monitoring

“Georgia is at a crossroads on its path to European Integration,” said Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Georgia, in a statement issued at the end of a three-day visit to...

PACE monitors make fact-finding visit to Georgia

24/03/2023 | Monitoring

Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 27 to 29 March 2023. The visit will focus on recent developments...

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San Marino: PACE committee encourages the authorities to strengthen the effectiveness of direct democracy

22/03/2023 | Monitoring

The PACE Monitoring Committee today lauded San Marino for its “wide and impressive range of institutional consultation mechanisms and instruments of direct democracy” while expressing concern about the numerous reports that indicate that these consultation mechanisms are “not always used as...

Yerevan / Armenia

Co-rapporteurs report severe obstruction of Lachin Corridor during visit to Armenia

21/03/2023 | Monitoring

In a declassified information note, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), today shared their findings with the PACE Monitoring Committee following their visit to Armenia on 17-19 February. The purpose of their visit was...

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Poland: PACE monitor urges all political parties to set aside narrow party interest and address the rule of...

17/03/2023 | Monitoring

Ending a three-day visit to Warsaw, one of the two co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), has called on all political parties to set aside narrow party political interest in order to overcome...

Warsaw Presidential Palace
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PACE rapporteur to make monitoring visit to Poland

09/03/2023 | Monitoring

Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw from 13 to 15 March. This visit will mainly focus on judicial reforms, the independence of the...

PACE Georgia monitors deeply concerned by first reading adoption of Transparency of Foreign Influence law

08/03/2023 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have expressed their deep concern at the adoption at first reading by the Georgian Parliament of the controversial law on...

Fact-finfing visit by Kimmo Kiljunen and Boriana Åberg to Armenia

The situation in the Lachin corridor requires immediate action, PACE monitors for Armenia say

24/02/2023 | Monitoring

Following their visit to Armenia on 17-19th of February to assess the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC...