20/05/2022 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have appealed to Turkey’s authorities to find a solution to the Kavala case which is in line with an earlier ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Ending a three-day visit to Istanbul...
18/05/2022 | Monitoring
John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Turkey, will make a fact-finding visit to Istanbul and Ankara from 18 to 20 May 2022. The co...
13/05/2022 | Monitoring
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), reacted to the confirmation of Canan Kaftancıoğlu’s prison sentence: "We are dismayed by the decision of the Court of Cassation...
26/04/2022 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified today by the Monitoring Committee, the former co-rapporteurs for Russia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (Netherlands, EPP/CD), take stock of the parliamentary monitoring procedure in respect of Russia since its accession in 1996, “with a view...
29/03/2022 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of PACE has welcomed the “continuous and marked progress” made by Georgia in honouring its Council of Europe membership obligations and commitments since 2014, but added that a number of shortcomings and concerns remain. Approving a draft resolution today, based on a...
25/03/2022 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Turkey from 21 to 24 March as co-rapporteurs, PACE monitors John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) have welcomed the open and frank dialogue with the Turkish authorities when discussing the Assembly’s latest resolutions, including Resolution...
21/03/2022 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Turkey John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC) undertook a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 21-24 March 2022 to assess follow-up to the Assembly’s resolutions, latest developments and the implementation of rulings of the European...
04/02/2022 | Monitoring
PACE’s co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with North Macedonia have said the EU’s “unfulfilled promise” on opening accession negotiations with the country has “fostered political instability in the country, uncertainty and disillusion” – and encouraged the authorities, opposition and...
04/02/2022 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified by the Monitoring Committee, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, underlined the determination of the authorities to strengthen the independence of the...
18/01/2022 | Monitoring
PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Serbia, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC), reacted to the outcome of the constitutional referendum held on 16 January 2022: “We welcome the approval, by 59% of the voters, of the constitutional amendments aimed at...
17/12/2021 | Monitoring
Following their visit to the country from 8 to 10 December 2021, the PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlatean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), expressed their serious concern at the extremely polarised political climate in the country which is foreclosing any...
15/12/2021 | Monitoring
The PACE Monitoring Committee has welcomed the fact that Armenia has “successfully emerged from the serious political crisis triggered by the outcome in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” as well as its pursuit of reforms and the launch of new projects since the change of political leadership in 2018...