30/09/2014 | Session
At the opening of the Living Library “No hate, no extremism” PACE President Anne Brasseur and the Speaker of the Norwegian parliament OlemicThommessen called on all parliaments in Europe to support the initiative to make 22 July a “European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime”. Today, the...
30/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly called for measures to improve the quality of vocational training, boost its attractiveness and bring it into line with the needs of the labour market. It said that vocational education face “many challenges"
29/09/2014 | Session
Adopting the agenda at the opening of its Autumn session, the Assembly decided to hold debates on “The crisis in Ukraine”, and an urgent debate on “Threats against humanity posed by the terrorist group known as “IS”".
29/09/2014 | Session
"Human rights must be above political agendas and national specificities," Parliamentary Assembly President Anne Brasseur said in her opening speech of the autumn session today in Strasbourg.
29/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly today elected, at the opening of its Autumn 2014 Session, Ksenija Korenjak Kramar as a new Assembly Vice-President in respect of Slovenia. Twenty Vice-Presidents are elected annually.
29/09/2014 | Prizes
The second Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to Azerbaijani human rights defender Anar Mammadli.
29/09/2014 | Session
According to the Parliamentary Assembly, the presidential election in Turkey was “organised in a professional and efficient manner and for the most part election procedures were followed”.
29/09/2014 | Session
The Assembly held this afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Thirty-six parliamentarians spoke.
25/09/2014 | President
Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to Azerbaijan, PACE President, Anne Brasseur, has called for a broad dialogue between the authorities, political actors and civil society.
25/09/2014 | Session
To rally opposition to hate speech and neo-Nazism, the PACE and the Council’s Youth Department are staging a Living Library on 30 September and 1 October at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of honour was awarded to the Italian municipality of Farnese on 21 September. José Mendes Bota presented this distinction to the European committed municipality of Farnese.
22/09/2014 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen and Piotr Wach, PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova, will make a fact-finding visit to this country from 23 to 26 September.