14/03/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Given the erosion of labour rights, job insecurity and the lack of quality employment prospects, especially for young people, it is imperative that national strategies be drawn up to ensure decent work for everyone, stated the committee.
14/03/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Child poverty is creeping back into Europe as the economic crisis has undermined social protection systems, according to the Social Affairs Committee. More money for early childhood education is needed.
14/03/2014 | President
PACE President Anne Brasseur will give a keynote speech, along with EP President Martin Schulz, at an international conference in Vienna on 17 March entitled “1914 – The Collapse of a Peace Order”.
13/03/2014 | Session
An urgent debate on threats to the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine is likely to be a major focus of PACE’s spring session on 7-11 April. The final agenda will be decided on the opening day of the session.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
In line with the report by René Rouquet, the committee, meeting in Paris, expressed its concern about the often deplorable living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) housed in collective centres.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Europe is lagging behind in its efforts to resettle refugees – with only 20 Council of Europe member states resettling only 5,500 people in 2013 – and should do a great deal more, according to the committee.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Many Council of Europe member states grant refugees the right to work, seeing it as beneficial to host societies, but a gap remains between the legal right and its practical application, according to the committee.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee called for the establishment of a transition status for unaccompanied migrant children reaching the age of majority, and for them to continue to be granted, during the transition phase, the most elementary rights.
13/03/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Nikolaj Villumsen is to make a fact-finding visit to Lisbon on 17-18 March, as part of the preparation of his report on equality and the crisis. He is due to meet in particular, the Minister of Solidarity, Employment and Social Security.
13/03/2014 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The parliamentarians from Andorra had the highest participation rates in the plenary debates of the PACE in 2013, ahead of the members from Switzerland and Luxembourg.
13/03/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Following the adoption of a Resolution on “Unaccompanied migrant children", the Committee on Migration hosted a workshop to launch a joint field research by UNHCR and the Council of Europe Youth Department.
12/03/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur met with UN Secretary General to discuss the crisis developing between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea. “We spoke about the important roles of the UN and the Council of Europe in keeping avenues of dialogue".