07/11/2014 | Election observation
“European integration or closer relations with the Customs’ Union – this is the key issue of the election campaign,” declared the delegation at the end of a pre-electoral mission to the Republic of Moldova.
07/11/2014 | President
The PACE Presidential Committee is to meet the Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin and members of the Russian delegation to the Assembly in Moscow on Thursday 13 November.
07/11/2014 | President
“The Berlin Wall was brought down not by the force of bulldozers and armies; it was torn down by the power of ideas,” said Anne Brasseur speaking on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
06/11/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
A delegation of French parliamentarians will make a visit on Friday 14 November to the administrative detention centre for irregular migrants and asylum seekers, at Coquelles, near Calais.
06/11/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A series of events in Cyprus aimed at ending sexual violence against children, beginning with a key parliamentary vote, will be presented at a press conference at 11 am on 12 November in Nicosia.
05/11/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs on abolition of the death penalty and on the situation in Belarus have expressed deep concern at reports of the execution in Belarus of Alyaksandr Hrunou, believed to be the third this year.
04/11/2014 | News
PACE’s rapporteur on counteracting neo-Nazism, Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin, has hailed the power of “parody and humour” to undermine neo-Nazi ideas, chairing a panel during the World Forum for Democracy.
03/11/2014 | Election observation
A PACE delegation, led by Jean-Claude Mignon, will carry out a pre-electoral mission to the Republic of Moldova on 5-6 November, to assess the election campaign and political climate.
03/11/2014 | President
“Too many journalists have paid with their lives, sacrificed their safety or freedom to guarantee us access to information,” said Anne Brasseur, in a seminar on the protection of journalists.
31/10/2014 | President
I deplore the decision of the self-appointed authorities of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to hold ‘parliamentary and presidential elections’ on 2 November, said Anne Brasseur.
31/10/2014 | President
Non-implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the judgments of the Strasbourg Court “threatens the very survival of the Convention system”, warned Anne Brasseur today, opening a seminar in Madrid.
31/10/2014 | Monitoring
Jordi Xuclà will make a post-monitoring visit to Monaco on 6-7 November. Meetings are scheduled, in particular, with Prince Albert II, the President of the National Council and the Minister of State.