23/01/2024 | Session
“As we navigate the complexities of our international and interconnected world, it is upon us to recognise that the values of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights are not just regional aspirations but universal imperatives”, said the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, in his...
23/01/2024 | Session
PACE today expressed concern at the intensification of a partial and biased treatment of the issue of migration and asylum in election campaigns, which legitimises political programmes aimed at hindering migrants' access to their rights in contravention of the Council of Europe’s standards and...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Gediminas Sagatys as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Lithuania. Mr Sagatys, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Stéphane Pisani as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg. Mr Stéphane Pisani, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
23/01/2024 | Session
At a plenary session debate in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) “unequivocally and in the strongest possible terms condemned the barbaric attack conducted by Hamas and other militia groups against Israel on 7 October 2023”, acts which “cannot be justified on...
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...