04/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"There can be no food security without food safety. Risk assessment is only the first step. Science by itself cannot ensure food safety; it has to be accompanied by effective policies”...
03/06/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has wished the Armenian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers a success during meetings in Yerevan with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and President Serzh Sargsyan. “I am entirely at your disposition to make it so,” the President said.
03/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a report on equal access to health care adopted unanimously by the Social Affairs Committee, the rapporteur Jean-Louis Lorrain (France EPP/CD) complains about the level of fraud and corruption, and calls for measures to combat corruption.
03/06/2013 | Secretary General of the Assembly
The Secretaries General of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe, the OSCE and NATO held talks today in Strasbourg, in the second of a series of ongoing meetings aimed at expanding co-operation between the three bodies.
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".