Amendment No. 18 | Doc. 12955 | 26 June 2012

The crisis of democracy and the role of the State in today’s Europe

Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

Origin - 2012 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 20, insert the following paragraph:

"In particular the Assembly calls upon national parliaments to fulfill their key function to uphold representative democracy in Europe, to reflect and counsel on the best ways in which modern democracy might adapt, and in its own work and debates would also seek to facilitate that purpose within the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.".