14/02/2014 | Elections
A PACE five-member delegation, led by Pedro Agramunt, will make a pre-electoral visit to Belgrade on 19-20 February, ahead of Serbia's 16 March early parliamentary elections, to assess the electoral framework and campaign.
13/02/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli has welcomed the announcement by the Governor of Washington that he will suspend executions in his state. “I congratulate Governor Inslee on his far-sighted and humane declaration", she stated.
11/02/2014 | Monitoring
Frano Matušić (Croatia, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, will make a fact-finding visit to Sofia on 12-13 February 2014.
07/02/2014 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Christopher Chope will travel to Rome, Lampedusa and Trapani for a fact-finding visit in connection with the preparation of a report on “The arrival of mixed migratory flows to Italian coastal areas”.
07/02/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Olga Borzova will make a fact-finding visit to London, in view of the preparation of her report on “Social services in Europe: legislation and practice of the removal of children from their families in Council of Europe member States”.
07/02/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC) will make a fact-finding visit to Oxford (United Kingdom) on 11 February 2014, in the context of the preparation of his report on “Challenges of a federal Europe”.
06/02/2014 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“When the Winter Olympic Games open with a display of music and lights, we should not forget that LGBT people across Russia are facing increasing violations of their rights", said the General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people.
31/01/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), rapporteur on “Keeping criminal and political responsibility separate”, has made a statement with regard to the prosecution of former government leaders in Georgia.
31/01/2014 | Session
The adopted resolution, based on the report by José María Beneyto, makes a number of recommendations to increase international organisations’ accountability for human rights violations.
31/01/2014 | Session
The Council of Europe should revise and modernise the 24-year-old European Convention on Transfrontier Television to take account of the latest technological standards, PACE has said.
30/01/2014 | Session
The Ukrainian authorities should enter into “open, honest and effective negotiations with the opposition” and promptly seek a wide consensus on the geopolitical alignment, the Assembly said today at the end of an urgent debate.
30/01/2014 | Session
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told members of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly today that European governments cannot allow themselves to “become accustomed” to high youth unemployment.