27/01/2025 | Session
At the opening of its winter plenary Session today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected its Vice-Presidents: Bertrand Bouyx (France)Bernadeta Coma (Andorra)Elisabetta Gardini (Italy)Blerina Gjylameti (Albania)Andries Gryffroy (Belgium)Antonio Guitérréz Limones...
27/01/2025 | Session
The credentials of Georgia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been challenged on substantial grounds on the opening day of the 2025 winter plenary session. Making the challenge, Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD) said the Georgian Parliament was a “one...
27/01/2025 | Session
“I wish to start by expressing my gratitude for re-electing me as President of this Assembly for a second term. I consider my re-election as a vote of confidence and approval of the work I have been doing since becoming PACE President in January 2024,” PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos said...
27/01/2025 | Session
In adopting a resolution today, based on a report by Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD) – which takes stock of the PACE monitoring activities covering the period from January to December 2024 and makes a series of assessments of the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in...
27/01/2025 | Session
“We are relational beings and institutions, and as such, we are both responsible and accountable for one another. We are social beings, and as such, we share the world and the planet's resources. In other words, we live in a global community, and as such, we share common values which transcend...
27/01/2025 | Session
The conclusions of the report presented today by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE) on the observation of the parliamentary elections in Georgia on 26 October 2024 “raise concerns about the correctness of the election results, namely whether the election results truly reflect the will of the voters...
27/01/2025 | Session
The lists of candidates for the posts of judges at the European Court of Human Rights submitted by Andorra, Armenia, and Slovenia; the observation of the recent elections in the Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, and Georgia, and the observation of the upcoming elections to the Assembly of Kosovo...
27/01/2025 | Session
In a communication to the Parliamentary Assembly, the Luxembourg Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Xavier Bettel, presented the priorities of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers. He reiterated Luxembourg’s commitment to continued support for Ukraine as one of the...
24/01/2025 | Session
A ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp will be held on Wednesday 29 January from 12:00 to 13:00 in the Chamber of the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg, as part of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
22/01/2025 | Elections
Concluding its pre-electoral visit to Pristina, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) commended the good preparation for the upcoming elections to the Assembly of Kosovo despite growing polarisation and called on all stakeholders to act responsibly and...
21/01/2025 | Elections
“The so-called presidential elections arranged in Belarus for 26 January 2025 are set to be a sham that, again, deny the right of the Belarusian people to participate in free and fair elections,” says PACE’s General Rapporteur for a Democratic Belarus, Ryszard Petru (Poland, ALDE). “The...
16/01/2025 | Monitoring
PACE's co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), and the General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have expressed deep concern at the recent sentencing of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known Azerbaijani civil...