10/04/2013 | Session
German President Joachim Gauck, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and Andorran Head of Government Antoni Martí are among a number of leading figures to address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) during its Spring plenary session in Strasbourg (22-26 April).
10/04/2013 | News
A PACE delegation, headed by its President Jean-Claude Mignon, will participate in a parliamentary conference in St Petersburg on 12 April on “The role of parliamentary organisations in building a Europe without dividing lines”.
10/04/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), Chair of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will undertake a fact-finding visit to Athens on 12-13 April in preparation for the report by Jean-Louis Lorrain (France, EPP/CD) on “Equal access to health care”.
09/04/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The members of PACE’s Sub-committee on the Middle East, currently visiting the Palestinian Territories, have learned with great concern that due to the hunger strike of Mr Samer Isawi, his life is in danger.
08/04/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning welcomed the liberation by the Ukrainian authorities of former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko. “I warmly welcome the liberation of Mr Lutsenko. During my recent visit to Ukraine I had a long talk with President Yanukovich during which I again expressed my position, and that of the Parliamentary Assembly, that the problem of imprisoned former government members needed to be swiftly resolved. I am happy that this message was heard..."
08/04/2013 | Election observation
Montenegro’s presidential election on 7 April was professionally and efficiently administered, but allegations of the misuse of state resources and a blurring of the line between state activities and candidate campaigning continued to be at odds with OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards, international observers said in a statement issued today.
08/04/2013 | President
“Discrimination against Roma in Europe starts even before they are born, due to a lack of adequate prenatal and maternal health care,” said Nursuna Memecan (Turkey, ALDE), Rapporteur on ending discrimination against Roma children of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), speaking on International Roma Day 2013.
08/04/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“The goal of peace requires the rapid resumption of negotiations,” said Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), who chairs the PACE Sub-Committee on the Middle East, currently visiting the Palestinian Territories. “In the short term, the Palestinians must be able to hold presidential and parliamentary elections by the end of 2013,” Mrs Durrieu added.
07/04/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“Jordan urgently needs the support of the international community in order to cope with the immense necessities of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees whom it harbours on its territory. Merely fulfilling the basic needs of the 140,000 Syrian refugees placed in the Za’atri camp, which our delegation visited, costs a million dollars a day...
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The participants in the conference held in Rabat on 4 and 5 April welcomed the commitment by the Moroccan government to address the challenge represented by migration policy, in a spirit of regional solidarity.
05/04/2013 | Monitoring
Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC) PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will undertake a fact-finding visit to the country from 8 to 11 April.
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Adopting the report by Mikael Cederbratt (Sweden, EPP/CD) yesterday in Rabat, the PACE Migration Committee has recommended that Frontex improve respect and protection of human rights at European borders. This European Union agency’s task is to co-ordinate EU member States’ actions relating to the management and control of the EU’s external borders.