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.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of honour will be awarded to the German municipality of Gotha (Thüringen) on 26 September. Marlene Rupprecht, will present this distinction which recognizes European efforts of this city.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The town of Borken, in the German Land of Hessen, is to be awarded the Council of Europe Plaque of Honour on 3 October. Marlene Rupprecht will hand over the prize.
19/09/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur, on a working visit to Azerbaijan from 22 to 24 September 2014, met the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Milli Mejlis and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice.
19/09/2014 | President
“The Istanbul Convention has a soul. It is a blueprint for future society in which violence against women will no longer be justified (...) It will be prevented, fought, punished and finally rejected by everyone”, Anne Brasseur said.
19/09/2014 | Parliamentary support
A seminar on the ECHR, specifically tailored for parliamentarians, will be held in Madrid on October 31st at the invitation of the Spanish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly.
19/09/2014 | Parliamentary support
A group of 20 staff members representing the different committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine participated in the capacity building seminar on the Council of Europe held in Strasbourg on 15 and 16 September.
19/09/2014 | Elections
“The best possibility to improve democracy is when people take part in the democratic process. The Bulgarian civil society should show its strength by participating in the elections in large numbers ” said Doris Fiala.
19/09/2014 | Elections
A pre-electoral delegation from the PACE visited Sarajevo and Banja Luka to assess the election campaign and the preparation of the general elections to be held on 12 October.