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Council of Europe commemorates victims of the Holocaust
“The Council of Europe is less than an hour from the Natzweiler-Struthof camp. Yet it stands for everything the Holocaust sought to destroy. The Council of Europe is a peace project built on a...
“Democratic security is our continent’s answer to the emerging world order.”
The opening session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe remains a cornerstone event of European democracy. Parliamentarians from across the whole continent come together to debate...
Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Council of Europe, European Union agree to set up advance team
The Council of Europe and the European Union have signed an agreement on the financing of an advance team to establish the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, within the...
Address by Moldovan President Maia Sandu to feature in Parliamentary Assembly programme
Addresses by Moldovan President Maia Sandu and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan are among highlights of the winter plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
President Rebelo de Sousa visit marks 50 years of Portugal’s accession to the Council of Europe
The President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has paid a visit in Strasbourg to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, during which they discussed the...
Kyrgyz human-rights defender awarded 2026 Raoul Wallenberg prize
Aziza Abdirasulova, a prominent human-rights defender and a pioneering independent civil society activist from Kyrgyzstan, has been awarded the 2026 Council of Europe Raoul Wallenberg prize in...
Secretary General Alain Berset to make official visit to Liechtenstein
Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will pay an official visit to Liechtenstein on Monday 19 January. In Vaduz, the Secretary General will meet H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam II of...
Europe from Ukraine to the Arctic: international law at a turning point
Secretary General Alain Berset spoke at the first meeting of 2026 of the Committee of Ministers – the decision-making body of the Council of Europe –with an acceleration of conflict and strife very...
Council of Europe Secretary General to attend World Economic Forum in Davos
At a time of growing geopolitical and economic uncertainty Secretary General Alain Berset will deliver a clear message to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on 19-20 January: there is no...
A year of reckoning
New year’s message by Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset: We enter 2026 between two worlds. The one we knew, shaped by shared rules, patient institutions, and the belief that law...