09/09/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Council of Europe member states should introduce and enforce laws banning the detention of children for immigration reasons, according to a report by PACE's Migration Committee.
08/09/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur has paid tribute to Jim Dobbin, a member of the British delegation to PACE, who passed away suddenly while on a visit to Poland as part of an Assembly delegation.
08/09/2014 | Session
A current affairs debate on the crisis in Ukraine, a report on countering neo-Nazism, and the award of the second Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize will be among highlights of PACE’s autumn session in Strasbourg.
05/09/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur, will make an official visit to Norway on 10-12 September. She will meet in Oslo the President of the Storting and the Vice-President of the Storting and Chair of the Norwegian delegation to PACE.
05/09/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Neo-Nazis are not to be disregarded, or indeed turned into martyrs, the Political Affairs Committee members emphasised by unanimously adopting a report by Marietta Pourbaix-Lundin on "Counteraction to manifestations of neo-Nazism".
05/09/2014 | Monitoring
Adopting a report by Stefan Schennach, the committee proposed to introduce a periodic overview of the 33 member states, not subject to a monitoring or post-monitoring procedure on the basis of an issue-based cross-country monitoring.
05/09/2014 | President
At the end of her three-day official visit to Romania, Anne Brasseur welcomed the authorities' firm commitment to the European project.
05/09/2014 | Monitoring
Meeting in Paris, the committee held in-depth discussions on the latest developments in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and made public reports on the fact-finding visits.
04/09/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Bogdan Klich, rapporteur on evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Morocco, has called on the Parliament to play a more active role in pushing for reforms.
02/09/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur met today with the Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergey Naryshkin, together with the leaders of the Parliamentary Assembly’s political groups.
02/09/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur will make an official visit to Romania on 3-5 September. She is due to meet in Bucharest, notably, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the President of the Senate and the Prime Minister.
02/09/2014 | Prizes
A PACE delegation led by the Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, Axel Fischer, will present the Europe Prize to Maciej Kobylinski, Mayor of Słupsk the Prizewinner for 2014, on Saturday 6 September.