26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
Current affairs debates on “Excluding athletes from Russia and Belarus from taking part in the Olympics” (with a statement by Kaspars Cipruss, Secretary General of the Latvian Basketball Federation) and on “The follow-up to the Reykjavik Summit” (with the participation of Aoife Nolan, President...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
In the framework of the Standing Committee meeting in Riga, the ‘Women@PACE’ group today held an exchange of views with Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, who served as the President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She was the first woman to hold the post in the country. Addressing the participants, Ms Vīķe...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
“The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) has continuously adapted to the changing context in which it operates by developing new tools and instruments to meet member states’ needs, while remaining focused on its social mandate,” CEB Governor Carlo Monticelli said today, addressing the PACE...
26/05/2023 | Standing Committee
“The Olympic Charter clearly states that the goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. The Russian war of aggression is an indisputable breach of this...
26/05/2023 | Artificial Intelligence
Organised by the PACE Interparliamentary Co-operation and Project Support Division in co-operation with the Latvian delegation to PACE, a Round Table on ‘Artificial intelligence, freedom of expression and disinformation: challenges and risks for democracy’ took place today after the Standing...
26/05/2023 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), Rapporteur on how migration and asylum are being discussed during electoral campaigns, has completed a two-day visit on 24-26 May 2023 in Sweden. Indeed, the Tidö political agreement in the wake of the elections in September 2022 lays the ground for a major...
25/05/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE committee is urging the United Kingdom government and parliament to carefully consider the content of provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill and Bill of Rights Bill that – were they to enter into force – “could risk placing the UK in breach of its international obligations”. Unanimously...
23/05/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Since 2014, there have been 854 reported incidents of physical transnational repression carried out by 38 governments in 91 countries worldwide. PACE Legal Affairs Committee is alarmed about the number and gravity of acts of transnational repression committed in Europe. Russia, recently excluded...
22/05/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Social Affairs Committee estimates that there are around 4 to 5 million undocumented people in Europe, many of whom de facto participate in the labour market as “invisible workers” but remain very fragile socio-economically – with poor or no access to socio-economic rights. By accepting the...
17/05/2023 | President
“Restoring, strengthening and perhaps re-inventing European democratic security and rules-based multilateralism against aggressive unilateralism has become an existential challenge and a main reason to meet here today," said Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
17/05/2023 | Parliamentary support
The Chamber of Representatives of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the University of Applied Administrative Sciences of Kehl organised from 15 to 17 May 2023 an information seminar under the title "Law evaluation by the...
15/05/2023 | Standing Committee
Joint Declaration from the Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of...