29/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur congratulated the Ukrainian people on holding early parliamentary elections which to a large extent comply with Ukraine’s democratic commitments and aspirations.
27/10/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Klaas de Vries has welcomed the ongoing efforts of Italian authorities to implement judgments of the ECHR, but expressed his concern that Italy has the highest number of pending non-implemented Court judgments.
27/10/2014 | Elections
"I would like to congratulate the Tunisian people on the outstanding quality of the electoral process, marking a crucial stage in the post-revolution transition,” said Andreas Gross, head of the PACE delegation.
27/10/2014 | Elections
“The sombre mood of the Ukrainian people in these elections reflects the gravity of the crisis facing the country. A new Verkhovna Rada will be very different in composition", said Christopher Chope,head of the PACE delegation.
24/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur will be making an official visit to Spain on 30 and 31 October 2014. She will meet Pío Garcia Escudero, President of the Senate, and Jesús Maria Posada Moreno, President of the Congress of Deputies.
23/10/2014 | President
Parliamentary Assembly President Anne Brasseur has congratulated Jean-Claude Juncker and the members of the new European Commission on their election by the European Parliament on 22 October.
21/10/2014 | Elections
An eleven-member delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly, headed by Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), will be in Tunisia from 23 to 27 October to observe the 26 October parliamentary elections.
21/10/2014 | Elections
A 36-member delegation, led by Christopher Chope, will observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections alongside observers from the OSCE-PA, European Parliament, NATO-PA and OSCE-ODIHR.
18/10/2014 | President
Speaking at the Conference on the European Social Charter “Europe restarts in Turin”, Anne Brasseur recalled that social rights must be considered as fundamental human rights, indivisible, interdependent and complementary.
17/10/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"Many austerity and fiscal consolidation programmes were implemented without prior consultation with social partners and are not in conformity with the European Social Charter,” stressed the Sub-committee.
15/10/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Nicosia (Cyprus) has exceptionally been awarded both the Flag and the Plaque of Honour of the Council of Europe at a ceremony on 10 October.
14/10/2014 | President
Following yesterday’s final decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ilgar Mammadov, PACE President Anne Brasseur has called on the authorities to free him "without delay”.