24/04/2025 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has ended an official visit to Armenia by welcoming continued progress on institutional reforms in the country aimed at strengthening judicial independence, protecting human rights and fighting corruption. During high-level talks with Armenian leaders on 23...
24/04/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“A structured dialogue between the various stakeholders is urgently needed, be they state or non-state actors. This situation is too serious for Resolution 2569 to remain a document in a drawer,” said PACE Vice-President Antonio Gutiérrez-Limones (Spain, SOC), opening a parliamentary conference...
17/04/2025 | Monitoring
Sibel Arslan (Switzerland, SOC) and Joseph O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia, will make a fact-finding visit to Skopje from 23 to 25 April. Discussions will mainly focus on...
16/04/2025 | Elections
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), concluded a two-day pre-election visit to Warsaw ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for 18 May 2025. The delegation acknowledged significant positive...
16/04/2025 | Elections
At the 20th European Conference of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs), held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 15–16 April, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) emphasised the need for closer co-operation between parliaments and electoral management bodies to secure...
16/04/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
At its meeting in Strasbourg on 9 April, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons called on member states to fully comply with the instruments of international humanitarian law, maritime law and those relating to the protection of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers...
14/04/2025 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Oleksii Goncharenko (Ukraine, ECPA), the Chair of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement today: “On 20 March 2025 the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned against the...
14/04/2025 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Steve Cohen, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Political Prisoners, and Azadeh Rojhan, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) General Rapporteur on Political Prisoners in Europe, today made the following statement: “We strongly condemn the continued detention of three...
11/04/2025 | Session
Urgent debates on “The situation in Georgia and follow up to Resolution 2585 (2025) ’Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia’”; on “The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye...
11/04/2025 | Elections
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), will make a pre-electoral visit to Poland on 14-15 April to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential election on 18 May. In Warsaw, the...
10/04/2025 | Session
“We are appalled by the attacks on and restrictions imposed on humanitarian actors in the Gaza Strip, when their sole objective is to provide humanitarian and neutral assistance,” said Paul Galles (Luxembourg, EPP/CD), at the opening of a current affairs debate held today in Strasbourg in plenary...
10/04/2025 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls for closer cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community (EPC), stressing the importance of maintaining the Council of Europe’s role as a cornerstone of pan-European dialogue and multilateralism...