23/01/2024 | Session
No candidate having obtained an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round of today’s election for the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, a second round of voting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 24 January 2024. The results obtained were as follows: Ms Megleva Kuneva...
22/01/2024 | President
Theodoros Rousopoulos (Greece, EPP/DC) has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Taking over from Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL), he is PACE’s 35th President since 1949 and the first Greek national to hold this office. The President serves for a one...
22/01/2024 | Session
The credentials of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been challenged on procedural grounds on the opening day of the 2024 winter plenary session. Making the challenge, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) said that the new proposed...
22/01/2024 | Session
The credentials of Azerbaijan’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been challenged on substantive grounds on the opening day of the 2024 winter plenary session. Making the challenge, Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC) cited political prisoners in the country...
22/01/2024 | Session
At the opening of its winter plenary Session today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected its Vice-Presidents: Agnieszka Pomaska (Poland)Armin Laschet (Germany)Bernadeta Coma (Andorra)Bertrand Bouyx (France)Blerina Gjylameti (Albania)David Morris (United Kingdom...
22/01/2024 | Session
Commissioner Mijatović calls for determined and collective efforts to regain lost ground and advance human rights “The intensification of challenges to the protection of human rights cannot be an excuse for giving up. Rather, the moment calls for a renewed commitment to the principles and...
22/01/2024 | Session
Addressing the Assembly in the framework of the presentation of PACE’s progress report, PACE former President Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL) cited the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as the main priority of his mandate, “a war that should never have been started, and it now has to end as...
22/01/2024 | Session
Presenting to the Assembly today a report based the findings of the observation of the early parliamentary elections in Serbia, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) recalled the delegation’s statement that assessed that “this elections offered voters a choice between political alternatives and...
19/01/2024 | President
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of Sir Tony Lloyd, who was a distinguished member of our Assembly for more than ten years, and the head of the British delegation here for many of them,” said PACE President Tiny Kox. “Tony believed sincerely in the values of the Council of Europe, and his quiet...
17/01/2024 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox, in a final address to the Council of Europe’s ministerial body, reviewed his two-year term of office during what he described as “a most challenging and dangerous period for the Council of Europe and our citizens” and said his main challenge had been to, firstly, avert...
15/01/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on political prisoners, Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), today issued a statement concerning the alleged ill-treatment and detention of Nikola Sandulović, leader of the Serbian Republican Party: “According to Mr...
11/01/2024 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Leading representatives of democratic forces from Belarus as well as members of civil society and journalists joined with parliamentarians from across Europe in Helsinki on 11-12 January 2024 for discussions on building a democratic future for Belarus. The “Helsinki Dialogue” event, jointly...