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News | Election observation
PACE to observe the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria
A 19-member PACE delegation, headed by Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), will travel to Bulgaria from 10 to 13 May to observe the early parliamentary elections alongside observers from the OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly and Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

07/05/2013

News | President
PACE and European Parliament: co-ordination of political messages concerning Council of Europe standards
PACE and the European Parliament must speak with one voice in the fields of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon underlined at the end of his two-day visit to the European Parliament in Brussels, on 6 and 7 May. ...

06/05/2013

News | President
PACE President calls for compliance with European standards in the Republic of Moldova
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has voiced concern about the current situation in the Republic of Moldova, where a political struggle seems to be in danger of jeopardising the Moldovan people’s aspirations on the road to European integration....

03/05/2013

News | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Rapporteurs condemn death sentence handed down in Belarus
Marina Schuster (Germany, ALDE), PACE's newly-appointed General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have expressed their dismay at the first death sentence handed down in Belarus...

03/05/2013

News | Monitoring/Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Rapporteurs react to ECtHR ruling with regard to illegal arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko
PACE co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), as well as Pieter Omtzigt, (Netherlands, EPP/CD) Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on “Keeping political and criminal responsibility...

02/05/2013

News | President
PACE President to take part in a ceremony in Girona in honour of Lluís Maria de Puig
PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, will give a speech at the ceremony to be held on 10 May in Girona in tribute to the former President of the Assembly, Lluís Maria de Puig, who died in December 2012. He will be accompanied by the Secretary General of the Assembly, Wojciech...

02/05/2013

News | President
PACE President at the European Parliament in Brussels
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon will meet in Brussels on 6 and 7 May, Miguel Martinez, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs......

02/05/2013

News | Sexual violence against children
Further steps towards full protection of girls and women world-wide
Reacting to the death on Monday 30 April of a 5 year-old girl who had been raped two weeks earlier in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Stella Kyriakides (Cyprus, EPP/CD) and José Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD) declared themselves worried about the fact that full...

29/04/2013

News | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Council of Europe budget freeze for 2014 and 2015
At a time of budgetary restrictions affecting most member States, the Council of Europe budget for 2014 and 2015 will show zero nominal growth, notes Rudy Salles (France, EPP/CD) in an opinion on the budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for 2014-2015......

26/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE approves Draft Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Draft Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms can be adopted by the Committee of Ministers and opened for signature and ratification as presently drafted, without amendment, according to the Parliamentary Assembly. ...

26/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE calls for a permanent body for ethical reflection on scientific issues
The increasing complexity of science and technology calls for the creation of a permanent global body for ethical reflection, the Assembly said today. Such structure would make it possible to address ethical issues as a “moving target”, rather than fixing an “ethical code”......

26/04/2013

News | Political Affairs and Democracy
Situation in the Middle East: PACE sub-committee to visit Israel
The members of the Sub-Committee on the Middle East of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), chaired by Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), will make a visit to Israel from 30 April to 1 May 2013, thus completing the second part of their visit to the Middle...

26/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
PACE seeks ways to balance the risks and benefits of nanotechnology
Nanotechnology – the manipulation of matter on an atomic and molecular scale – and its myriad applications have the potential for enormous benefits, in particular in the field of “nanomedicine”, but can also do serious harm, PACE has pointed out. ...

25/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
The Assembly ratifies the credentials of Andriy Shevchenko
The Assembly today decided to deprive Serhiy Vlasenko of his mandate and to ratify the credentials of Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine, EPP/CD). This decision follows the challenge to Mr Shevchenko’s still unratified credentials made last Monday by Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands,...

25/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Syrian refugees: the international community’s duty of solidarity
“Fleeing the conflict in Syria, 1.3 million people have found refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Given the enormous efforts of these countries to handle this situation, we must remind the international community of its duty of solidarity...", Pietro Marcenaro...

25/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Antoni Marti: Andorra's key challenge is to open its economy
Antoni Martí, Head of Government of Andorra, today claimed that the most important challenge for his country today is moving towards a more open economy, based on cooperation, transparency and equality. ...

25/04/2013

News | Spring session: 22-26 April 2013
Coerced sterilisations and castrations: 'never again'
“Never again”, Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC) declared today when presenting her report on coerced sterilisations and castrations to the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. ...

25/04/2013

News | Monitoring
PACE committee recommends monitoring of Hungary
PACE Monitoring Committee has recommended that the Assembly should open a “monitoring procedure” in respect of Hungary, citing deep concerns at “the erosion of democratic checks and balances” as a result of the new constitutional framework in the country. In an opinion,...

25/04/2013

News | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
PACE committee proposes changing regulatory provisions of monitoring and post-monitoring procedures
In adopting a report by Pedro Agramunt (Spain, SOC) today, the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs has proposed that monitoring and post-monitoring reports in future be presented to the Assembly at least once every three years....

25/04/2013

News | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Assembly must cut expenditure in 2014 and 2015, according to a PACE committee
The report by Rudy Salles (France, EPP/CD) on PACE expenditure for 2014-2015, which was adopted today by the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs, states that the Assembly, in view of the determination of many member states to adopt...

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