14/11/2014 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
"The FIFA conclusions, as presented in Mr Eckert’s statement, are clearly an attempted whitewash aimed at putting an end to the embarrassing debate about the need to rerun the World Cup bid process", Michael Connarty said.
14/11/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The ratification of the Lanzarote Convention by the Republic of Cyprus is a continuation of our country’s commitment for the defense of children's rights, said General Rapporteur on Children, Stella Kyriakides.
13/11/2014 | President
"It is only through dialogue that solutions can be found and parliamentarians in particular have a responsibility to find solutions to problems together," Anne Brasseur said after meeting with Sergey Naryshkin.
12/11/2014 | Monitoring
The ratification of the Istanbul and Lanzarote Conventions confirms that the Principality is firmly anchored in the Organisation, devoted to its ideals and a contributor to its activities, said Jordi Xuclà.
10/11/2014 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee will meet in Brussels on Tuesday 18 November at the Federal Parliament, in the context of the Belgian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers (13 November 2014-May 2015).
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.