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For a complementary joint procedure CM-PACE in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations
The Parliamentary Assembly welcomed the intensification of dialogue and contacts with the Committee of Ministers with a view to setting up a complementary joint procedure between the two statutory organs of the Council of Europe in response to a serious violation by a member State of its...
Council of Europe equipped to meet challenges of future, Secretary General tells PACE
The Council of Europe must take a leading role in overcoming new challenges to human rights, democracy and the rule of law, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has told the organisation’s Parliamentary Assembly. Populism, hate speech, discrimination against minorities, attacks on the media,...
Igor Dodon: “the Common House remains a project that inspires and mobilises”
“Despite the uncertainties, the European project of the Common House remains a project that inspires and mobilises”, today said Igor Dodon, President of the Republic of Moldova, addressing the Parliamentary Assembly. “We must be aware that, whatever the national specificity and the languages...
70th anniversary of European Convention on Human Rights: a convention for the people
The leaders of the 47-nation Council of Europe have issued the following statement to launch the 70th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2020: The European Convention on Human Rights came into being against the dreadful background of the devastation of the Second World War,...