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Monday 25 June 2012
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| Summer session: 25-29 June 2012 |
| PACE President calls for vigilance to ensure that the values of the Council of Europe are upheld |
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| [25/06/2012] “We must remain on our guard to make sure that all member states of our organisation respect our values and honour their undertakings in this time of crisis,” said PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon at the opening of the summer part-session. “I am thinking here, for instance, of the developments in Hungary, where some laws passed recently raise doubts about compliance with our standards, in particular regarding the independence of justice..." (more..) |
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| Summer session: 25-29 June 2012 |
| Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha addresses the Parliamentary Assembly |
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 [25/06/2012] “The Council of Europe has always stood by Albania since the fall of Europe’s worst dictatorship,” declared Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha in his address to the PACE. He recalled the considerable distance covered by Albania over the two decades following the fall of its prevailing dictatorship... (more..) |
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| Monitoring |
| PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs welcome presidential pardon in Azerbaijan |
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 [25/06/2012] PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC), have welcomed the pardon by President Aliyev and release of nine of the eleven prisoners of conscience still detained since the March-April 2011 demonstrations in Baku. The co-rapporteurs said this decision met their repeated calls, including during their last visit to Baku in mid-June 2012. (more..) |
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| Summer session: 25-29 June 2012 |
| PACE to hold debates on the crisis of democracy in Egypt and on European institutions and human rights in Europe |
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 [12/06/2012] When adopting its final agenda at the opening of the Summer Session 2012, PACE decided to hold an urgent debate on the crisis of democracy in Egypt and a current affairs debate on European institutions and human rights in Europe. Addresses by Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, as well as a joint debate on “Democracy at risk: the role of citizens and of the State today” will be among highlights of the session. |
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| Summer session: 25-29 June 2012 |
| PACE elects its Vice-President with respect to the Slovak Republic |
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 [25/06/2012] The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which opened today in Strasbourg its Summer Session 2012, elected Olga Nachtmannova (SOC) Vice-President of the Assembly with respect to the Slovak Republic. |
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| Monitoring |
| Turkey: ‘Revision of the Penal Code should be hastened to guarantee freedom of expression and the media’ |
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 [22/06/2012] At the end of a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 17 to 21 June 2012, PACE’s rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) has urged the Turkish authorities to speed up the revision of the Penal Code and the anti-terror law in order to strengthen freedom of expression... (more..) |
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| World Refugee Day |
| Giacomo Santini: ‘Europe must fulfil its destiny as a land of asylum’ |
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 [20/06/2012] On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Giacomo Santini (EPP/CD), President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, today made the following statement: “From time immemorial, conflicts throughout the world have forced people to flee from their countries in millions..." (more..) |
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| Joint informal body |
| EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: ‘the momentum must not be lost’ says joint parliamentary body |
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 [19/06/2012] A joint informal body of MEPs and Council of Europe parliamentarians has welcomed the prospect of talks resuming on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Last week the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to pursue negotiations with the EU with a view to finalising the legal instruments setting out the modalities of accession. (more..) |
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