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.
05/04/2013 | President
“With its culture of tolerance and dialogue and its long tradition of efforts to advance the cause of peace, Norway can do a lot to help the Council of Europe to defend and promote its values in countries where democracy and human rights are under threat,” said Jean-Claude Mignon today at the end of his official visit to Norway.
05/04/2013 | Election observation
“Bulgaria needs free and fair elections as only this can give the next parliament the legitimacy it needs in order to overcome the political and social crisis,” a six-member pre-electoral delegation of the PACE has concluded.
05/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Migration Committee, meeting yesterday in Rabat, considers that much more needs to be done in the spirit of international co-operation and burden-sharing by the EU and its member states to assist the countries beyond their eastern borders to deal with migratory pressures.
04/04/2013 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The members of the Sub-Committee on the Middle East of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), chaired by Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), will make a visit to Jordan on 6 and 7 April, and then to the Palestinian Territories on 8 and 9 April.
04/04/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteur Jordi Xuclà (Spain, ALDE) has welcomed the recent establishment of the Ombudsman institution in Turkey. “For a long time Turkey remained the biggest member state of the Council of Europe without an institution of this type. Now that it has been set up, it needs some time to become a mature and fully effective institution,” Mr Xuclà said.
03/04/2013 | Election observation
A six-member PACE delegation led by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), will be visiting Montenegro from 5 to 8 April 2013 to observe the presidential election alongside observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
03/04/2013 | President
“Europe cannot progress unless it invests in young people and unless young people’s voices are heard and heeded in all major decisions affecting society,” said Jean-Claude Mignon, PACE President, speaking today at the end of an official two-day visit to Finland (2 and 3 April 2013). “Europe is an idea that never grows old and one that cannot be achieved without young people,” he stressed.
02/04/2013 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons will organise in Rabat on 4-5 April 2013, in co-operation with the Moroccan Parliament, a conference on the theme “How can Morocco and Europe face up to the challenges and opportunities in the field of South-North migration?”.