05/07/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today in Monaco, has hailed what he called the “growing complementarity” of the two parliamentary assemblies, and proposed a series of practical steps for them to work together better to observe elections, resolve frozen conflicts and co-ordinate their messages.
03/07/2012 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik (Netherlands, SOC), whose inquiry for PACE uncovered a “catalogue of failures” that led to the deaths of 63 people fleeing Libya by sea after their distress calls were ignored, will present her findings to the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate on 4 July in Rome.
03/07/2012 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE) will make a fact-finding visit to Ukraine on 4-6 July 2012, in preparation for his report on “Management of mixed migration and asylum challenges beyond the European Union’s eastern border”.
01/07/2012 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning welcomed the international agreement on the establishment of a transitional government in Syria, following the international conference of the Action Group which was held in Geneva yesterday.
29/06/2012 | Session
At a press conference on the role of the PACE in the Council’s work in the youth sector, the Assembly President, Jean-Claude Mignon, today announced that a Youth Assembly would be held in Strasbourg from 5 to 7 October.
29/06/2012 | Session
While underlining the link between free movement of persons and freedom of expression, the Assembly today said that some Council of Europe member States have misused their legal right to determine entry into their territory in order to deny entry “to some persons merely as punishment for a political or ideological position they peacefully hold”.
29/06/2012 | Session
In a resolution unanimously adopted today, on the basis of the report by Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), the PACE summarises progress and concerns in ten countries under the monitoring procedure, and in four countries engaged in post-monitoring dialogue.
28/06/2012 | Session
Whilst welcoming the election of the first civilian President in Egypt as a “historical step in the country’s transition to democracy”, the Assembly today expressed its deep concern about recent developments which constitute “real obstacles to a slowly emerging democracy”.
28/06/2012 | Session
Mayors of 12 prize-winning municipalities were today presented in Strasbourg with the European Diploma 2012, on the occasion of a ceremony attended by some 50 participants. About ten mayors from several European countries travelled to Strasbourg.
28/06/2012 | Monitoring
If Ukraine’s Court of Cassation does not satisfactorily resolve the issue of the imprisoned former government members, President Yanukovych should intervene politically in order to resolve the issue, according to PACE’s monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD).
28/06/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has expressed concern at a recent amendment to Turkish law banning strikes in the airline sector, following the calling of a strike at Turkish Airlines, as well as the subsequent sacking of hundreds of striking airline workers.
28/06/2012 | Session
Despite facing challenges, Tunisia is “well advanced in its process of reform”, the Parliamentary Assembly declared today at the end of a debate attended by the President of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia Mustapha Ben Jaafar.