28/02/2014 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 27.02.2014 – At its forthcoming meeting in Paris on 3 March, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to hold a hearing on “European institutions and human rights in Europe”, with the participation of Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former President of the European Central Bank, and of Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
The hearing is taking place in the context of the preparation of a report on the subject by Michael McNamara (Ireland, SOC), which is to examine several issues: the democratic accountability of the EU and its institutions, the duplication of roles and activities of the EU and the Council of Europe, and the consideration shown by the EU’s newer institutions and organisations for the Council of Europe’s core tenets of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in Europe.
The committee will also discuss the report by Rudy Salles (France, EPP/CD) on “The protection of minors against the influence of sects”. This text proposes a number of measures to better understand the scale of the phenomenon of sects and to better combat abuses by sects targeting minors. Mr Salles’ report, which is due for adoption within the committee on the same day, will then be debated during PACE’s Strasbourg plenary session on Thursday 10 April.