29/11/2013 | Monitoring
Robert Walter (United Kingdom, EDG), rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 2-3 December 2013.
29/11/2013 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee will hold a seminar on 2 December in Belgrade, in co-operation with the PACE Parliamentary Project Support Division, on the mechanisms available to national parliaments to counter corruption.
29/11/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Mailis Reps, rapporteur on “Strengthening the protection and role of human rights defenders in Council of Europe Member States”, has just ended a series of fact-finding visits to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (20-29 November 2013).
28/11/2013 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“Crowdsourcing and semantic polling are tools that help policy-makers, but it will always be up to policy-makers to assume full responsibility and not water it down”, said Anne Brasseur.
27/11/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon will make an official visit to Hungary from 2 to 4 December 2013, during which he will meet, in particular, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
27/11/2013 | President
"The new information technologies are not a revolution but an evolution. Democracy and its institutions are in the image of society itself: in a permanent state of flux," the President said.
25/11/2013 | Monitoring
Co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia Davit Harutyunyan and Indrek Saar began a fact-finding visit to Belgrade to assess different aspects of Serbia’s obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
23/11/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon, reacting to the Riga tragedy, that claimed the lives of over 50 people, has sent a message of condolence to the Latvian people and the families and friends of the victims.
22/11/2013 | Standing Committee
"Today we suffer from a real lack of recognition and visibility for the thorough work we are doing," said the PACE President this morning at the opening of a meeting of the Standing Committee in Vienna.
22/11/2013 | Standing Committee
"Since Austria joined the Council of Europe in 1956, there has been a very strong connection between our parliament and your Parliamentary Assembly," said the President of Austria's Federal Council Reinhardt Todt.
22/11/2013 | Monitoring
Monitoring co-rapporteurs Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin have deeply regretted the Ukrainian decisions not to sign the EU Association Agreement and to refuse Yulia Tymoshenko medical treatment abroad.
22/11/2013 | Standing Committee
"I am very well-acquainted with PACE and I want us to work together more closely,” said Michael Spindelegger, addressing the Standing Committee in Vienna, setting out the priorities of the Austrian Chairmanship for the coming six months.