15/12/2012 | President
"I am profoundly shocked by this despicable act, which took the lives of so many children. There can be no justification for such a cowardly act," declared Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the PACE.
14/12/2012 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE Committee on culture, science, education and media will hold on Tuesday 18 December a hearing organised in conjunction with the French Senate committee on culture, education and communication on violence in the audiovisual media and its effects on children and society, with the participation of several international experts.
14/12/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 14.12.2012 – The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy meeting today in Turin has declassified an introductory memorandum on the evaluation of the partnership for democracy with the Parliament of Morocco on the basis of a report by Luca Volontè (Italy, EPP/CD).
14/12/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 14.12.2012 – In adopting in Turin today a draft resolution on the activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 2010-2012, based on a report by Tuur Elzinga (Netherlands, UEL), the committee congratulated the EBRD on its new system for evaluating transition in the reference countries.
14/12/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Strasbourg, 14.12.2012 - The draft resolution adopted today in Turin, based on a report by Björn Von Sydow (Sweden, SOC), stresses the need for the Council of Europe to maintain direct working relations with the Kosovo authorities at all levels in order to ensure due implementation of the Council of Europe co-operation activities.
13/12/2012 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Following a fact-finding visit to Stockholm in connection with the preparation of his report on protection of minors against sectarian influence, the rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rudy Salles (France, EPP/CD) has ascertained that in Sweden the national education system, particularly the arrangements for funding private schools, together with the system for registering associations, embody defects that might prompt abuses at the hands of sectarian movements.
13/12/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning expressed his profound sadness at the death of Lluís Maria de Puig, who presided over the Parliamentary Assembly from 2008 to 2010 and was a member of it for twenty-three years.
13/12/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The human rights and democratic values at the heart of the European project represent “supra-national” common interests which all states must respect, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has said, opening a major conference today in Turin on human rights and foreign policy. The conference, organised by PACE in co-operation with the Italian Senate’s Human Rights Committee and the Italian Chamber of Deputies, brings together over 100 participants.
13/12/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has welcomed today’s judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of el-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.
13/12/2012 | News
13/12/2012 | Political Affairs and Democracy
A step towards encouraging more human rights in European foreign policy was agreed today in Turin when key committees in up to 47 national parliaments agreed to meet on an institutional basis to promote the issue.
12/12/2012 | Monitoring
While welcoming the substantial progress made by Bulgaria towards the fulfilment of its remaining obligations, the PACE Monitoring Committee today said that the current post-monitoring dialogue with the Bulgarian authorities should continue.