PACE SPRING SESSION FOCUSES ON RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Lragir.am
04.04.2006

Strasbourg

Relations between the Council of Europe and the European Union will
be a major theme of the Spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe (PACE), which takes place in Strasbourg from
10 to 13 April 2006.

Later in the week, on Thursday, parliamentarians will debate a
memorandum of understanding between the two European organisations
as well as the specific issue of the EU’s new Fundamental Rights
Agency. Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis and the
Chairperson of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee
Elmar Brok will take part in the debate.

A possible urgent debate on stopping trafficking in women before the
FIFA World Cup, as well as debates on the human rights of members of
the armed forces and combating the resurrection of nazi ideology, are
among other highlights. Representatives of the Palestinian Legislative
Council and the Israeli Knesset have been invited to a debate on the
situation in the Middle East.

Debates are also due on the place of mother tongue in school education,
refugees and displaced persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia,
the social reintegration of prisoners and poverty and the fight
against corruption in Council of Europe member states.