31/05/2013 | Bureau
A request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary will be included on the draft agenda of the summer plenary session (24-28 June 2013) of the Parliamentary Assembly.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
“The Parliamentary Assembly shares and supports the priorities of the Armenian Chairmanship, which are fully in keeping with our main lines of action,” said PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon.
31/05/2013 | Monitoring
Karin S. Woldseth (Norway, EDG) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s (PACE) monitoring of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 5 June 2013. In Sarajevo, they are due to meet members of the Presidency, the Foreign Minister and members of the Bosnian parliamentary delegation to PACE, as well as the High Representative, the EU Special Representative and other diplomatic representatives.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
In the context of current economic and financial crisis, the Council of Europe budget for 2014 and 2015 will show zero nominal growth, for the first time in the Organisation’s history, stressed the Assembly.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Parliamentary Assembly has invited all Council of Europe member States, and in particular those with the highest rates of imprisonment, to vigorously promote the use of non-custodial sentences.
31/05/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"Child protection and children’s well-being across the world, including in Europe, are far from being ensured at the beginning of the 21st century", said Stella Kyriakides, General Rapporteur on Children speaking on the eve of International Children’s Day.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee, meeting in Yerevan, decided to make amendments to its monitoring procedure based on proposals by Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD), rapporteur on this subject.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
On the occasion of its meeting in Yerevan on 31 May 2013, the PACE Standing Committee declared: “The search for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a commitment taken by Armenia and by Azerbaijan".
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
Faced with the desire of many member States to impose a biennial budget based on zero nominal growth, and following the proposals by the rapporteur Rudy Salles, the Assembly agreed to reduce its expenditure for 2014 and 2015.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
European governments should actively encourage men to take up parental leave, the Parliamentary Assembly has said. In a resolution voted today, based on a report by Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE), PACE’s Standing Committee said parental leave schemes should enable parents, irrespective of their sex, to look after their children on an equal footing.
31/05/2013 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the PACE decided today in Yerevan that if a committee chair or vice-chair falls vacant in the course of a session, a former chairperson or vice-chairperson of that committee who has served two complete terms may be elected for an incomplete term until the end of that session (this decision will not apply to sub-committees).
29/05/2013 | President
At the end of his official visit to Georgia, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has welcomed the democratic transition of power in the country following the parliamentary elections in October 2012, which were generally considered by observers to have been free and fair. He invited the authorities, and all political forces, to continue developing a culture of political cohabitation, calling for mutual respect between the different parties.