27/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Young people are not merely seeking permission to be involved in political decision-making but are already acting, raising their voices and demanding recognition for their work to shape the future they will inherit, participants at a PACE parliamentary round table in Valletta have heard. Youth...
26/05/2025 | President
“The Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a turning point in our post-war history. It is not just a geopolitical crisis – it is a moral one,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the PACE Political Affairs Committee meeting in Chania, Greece...
25/05/2025 | President
“I welcome the prisoner exchange taking place this Sunday, the third and final phase of a ‘1,000 for 1,000’ exchange negotiated last week in Istanbul by Russia and Ukraine. I hope that this important step will help build trust and genuine cooperation between all parties to the conflict. It must...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in Malta on Friday 23 May 2025. The meeting was opened by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, followed by a...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
PACE has welcomed finalising the draft Third Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. Stressing the need for rapid and effective cross-border co-operation in the fight against transnational crime, the Assembly also underlined that such efforts...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
The PACE Standing Committee, meeting today in Malta, welcomed “the member states’ political and financial commitment”, which resulted in an increase of the Council of Europe's financial resources within the framework of the 2024-2025 biennial budget, while underlining that “the Organisation's...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
“Democracy and peace are not established once and for all, as we might have believed after the end of the Cold War. We must strive to uphold them each and every day continuously in all parts of our continent and beyond,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said today at the opening of the...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Malta’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers “will be a voice for dialogue, but not at the expense of justice. A host to all, but never neutral in the face of suffering. A builder of bridges, but never an observer of the erosion of human rights,” said Angelo Farrugia, Speaker of the Maltese...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
“We stand ready to do our part in strengthening the engagement and dialogue between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly,” said Ian Borg, Malta’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, and President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Opening a current affairs debate on the need to ensure the survival of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty during the Assembly’s Standing Committee meeting in Malta, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) made an appeal for the EU to provide a “stable budget line” to support what he called “a...
23/05/2025 | Standing Committee
Opening a current affairs debate on the role of parliamentarians in safeguarding investment in human rights and democracy amid rising military expenditure, taking place during a meeting of the PACE Standing Committee in Malta, Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL) said that the new emphasis on defence...
23/05/2025 | Women@PACE
The former President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was the guest of honour at a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group which took place in Malta ahead of a meeting of the Assembly’s Standing Committee, sharing her experience of “breaking the glass ceiling” in public life. Ms...