Press release – Press briefing on next week’s plenary session
2025-02-06 15:33
Strasbourg, 06.02.2025 – The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox (Netherlands, SOC), will hold a press briefing on Monday 13 February at 11.30 am CET to present the highlights of the Assembly’s upcoming plenary session (13-17 February 2023).
The press briefing will be held in the Press Conference Room at the Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg and will be webcast live.
Journalists wishing to attend the press briefing must register by email to PACE-Press@coe.int by Sunday 12 February 2023. Participants are invited to bring their press cards.
Main themes of the plenary session:
- Political consequences of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
- Preventing and combating trafficking in human beings in Ukraine and other conflict zones
- Transnational lists for the election of PACE members
- Implementation of the Istanbul Convention
- Climate crisis
- Situation of human rights defenders in Europe
- Artificial intelligence
Keynote speech:
- Oleksiy Goncharenko, Vice-President of the Ukrainian Parliament.
Official guests addressing the Assembly:
- Borjana Krivokapić, Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights of Montenegro
- Anna Moskwa, Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland
Reports and debates:
The agenda includes debates on the following reports:
- Defending and promoting the rights of victims of trafficking in Ukraine and other conflict zones (co-rapporteurs: Egidijus Vareikis, Lithuania, EPP/CD, and Karin Svaffer, Sweden, SOC)
- Preventing and combating violence against women: implementation of the Istanbul Convention (rapporteur: Maria Noichl, Germany, SOC)
- Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its implications for Europe (rapporteur: Aleksander Pociej, Poland, EPP/CD)
- Climate crisis: international and European responsibilities (rapporteur: Anders Österberg, Sweden, EPP/CD)
- The situation of human rights defenders in Europe (rapporteur: Inese Voika, Latvia, SOC)
- Artificial intelligence: challenges and opportunities for democracy (rapporteur: Jacopo Morrone, Italy, NR)
- Need for a new mechanism for selecting, appointing and dismissing judges of the European Court of Human Rights (rapporteur: Andrius Navickas, Lithuania, AH)
Elections:
The Assembly will elect judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Malta, Moldova and Poland.
Press release – Press briefing on next week’s plenary session
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