19/06/2023 | Session
“This week’s debate on the budget and priorities of the Council of Europe for 2024-2027 takes on its full meaning. We need to discuss how the decisions of the Summit can best be implemented in the years to come, including by the Assembly. I call on all Member States, after the adoption of the...
19/06/2023 | Session
Among the items in the progress report of the PACE’s Bureau and Standing Committee, presented today by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE) in plenary session, the PACE contribution to a fourth Council of Europe Summit; the activities of the Standing Committee in Reykjavik (15 May 2023) and Riga (26 May...
19/06/2023 | Session
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey (14 and 28 May 2023) enjoyed a high turnout and offered a choice between genuine political alternatives, according to a report presented today by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC) at the PACE plenary session. The Chairperson of the PACE observer...
19/06/2023 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has responded to parliamentarians’ questions at the PACE Summer session’s Question Time. During a lively Q & A session, Marija Pejčinović Burić highlighted the results of the Fourth Summit of the Heads of State and Government in...
19/06/2023 | Session
Addressing the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), which is meeting in Strasbourg for its 2023 Summer Session, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, referred to the foreign policy of his country in the context of the war of aggression against Ukraine. “There's...
16/06/2023 | Parliamentary support
The House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Morocco, the Portuguese Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) organised a study visit to the Portuguese Parliament on participatory democracy on 15 and 16 June 2023. The 2011 Constitution of the Kingdom of Morocco...
14/06/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, ending a five-day visit to the country (3-7 June 2023), have taken note of a number of steps by the authorities to meet their obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe...
14/06/2023 | Secretary General of the Assembly
“Human rights and good administration are not privileges, but necessities, PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis underlined, addressing the Conference “The Ararteko Act. Proposals for the Future: Rethinking Ombuds-institutions” on 13 June at the Basque Parliament in Vitoria...
12/06/2023 | Election observation
Montenegro’s early parliamentary elections were competitive and voters were offered a wide range of choices, but the process was weakened by legislative shortcomings as well as divisive campaign rhetoric and a polarized media environment, international observers said in a statement today. The...
08/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Today Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, the prominent Russian human rights group and Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, is facing trial for repeatedly discrediting the Russian armed forces, and risks being sentenced to three years of imprisonment,” said PACE’s General Rapporteur for Political...
06/06/2023 | President
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and Council of Europe’s President of the Committee of Ministers, Edgars Rinkēvičs, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić made the...
02/06/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Experts and industry figures have given testimony to a PACE hearing in London on the risks and opportunities of the Metaverse, including ideas for ensuring that virtual spaces can be kept safe for children, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence. The hearing, organised by PACE’s Committee on...