With over 2/3 majority PACE supports proposals made by UEL chair Tiny Kox on how to meet future challenges of the Council of Europe. The proposals include a new strong multilateral reaction mechanism of the Parliamentary Assembly, Committee of Ministers… Continue Reading
On behalf of the left group in the Council of Europe, Mr. Kox asked the European Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic to look urgently at the situation of journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested in London yesterday.… Continue Reading
On 16 March, the Standing committee meeting took place in Paris. The Members of PACE discussed the future of the European Human Rights Convention (which applies to all 830 million Europeans, from Iceland to Russia and from Portugal to Turkey) and… Continue Reading