26/01/2015 | Session
Adopting its agenda, the Assembly has decided to hold an urgent debate on the terrorist attacks in Paris on Wednesday morning, and to debate a challenge to the credentials of the Russian delegation later that day.
26/01/2015 | Session
At the opening of its Winter Session, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today re-elected Anne Brasseur as its President. PACE also elected its Vice-Presidents.
26/01/2015 | Session
“Auschwitz-Birkenau is a name which evokes over a million personal tragedies, but it is also a symbol,” Anne Brasseur said at a commemoration ceremony organised by the Parliamentary Assembly.
26/01/2015 | Session
Anne Brasseur has been re-elected President of the PACE for a new mandate of one year. "2014 was not a good year for the fundamental principles which we defend in Europe," she said in her opening speech.
26/01/2015 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has called on the Russian authorities to immediately release its member Nadiya Savchenko.
26/01/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A committee has said that the mass surveillance practices disclosed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden “endanger fundamental human rights” and divert resources that might prevent terrorist attacks.
26/01/2015 | Session
According to PACE, the parliamentary elections of 26 October 2014 in Tunisia were “free, inclusive and transparent” and marked a “crucial stage” in the post-revolution transition of the country.
26/01/2015 | Session
PACE welcomed “the satisfactory conduct of the presidential election in Tunisia” (23 November and 21 December 2014) and the high voter turnout, marking “a new milestone in the democratic transition of the country”.
26/01/2015 | Session
According to PACE, the parliamentary elections of 30 November 2014 in the Republic of Moldova were free, “generally well organised” and “characterised by a wide choice of political alternatives”.
24/01/2015 | President
Reacting to the recent escalation of violence in Eastern Ukraine which has already lead to heavy casualties among civilians in Donetsk and in Mariupol, Anne Brasseur reiterated her call on all sides to stop the fighting.
23/01/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Following the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket and in Montrouge, what conclusions can we draw? Two committees will look into these issues at a parliamentary hearing on Monday 26 January.
23/01/2015 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Following the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket and in Montrouge, what conclusions can we draw? Two committees will look into these issues at a parliamentary hearing on Monday 26 January.