CoE

2013-02-04The council will establish direct contact with authorities in Pristina.

2012-03-19With CoE membership, citizens would to be able to seek redress for human rights abuse at the European Court for Human Rights, but officials caution the road to membership is long.

2012-03-15Although the CoE says 20% of children in Europe face sexual abuse, Montenegro still has a patriarchal attitude to this problem.

2010-11-12STRASBOURG, France -- Turkey took over chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) from Macedonia at a ceremony in Stra...

2010-05-11SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia takes over the six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Ministers from Switzerland on Tues...

2009-10-02STRASBOURG, France -- Turkey must do more to protect the rights of its ethnic minority groups, including Kurds, Council of Europe Commissioner for hu...

2009-08-25TIRANA, Albania -- Prime Minister Sali Berisha stressed on Monday (August 24th) that EU membership will be the focus of the government's new mandate....

2009-03-27PRISTINA, Kosovo -- The Council of Europe (CoE) commissioner for human rights, Thomas Hammerberg, urged Kosovo leaders Thursday (March 26th) to quick...

2009-03-24Foreign and domestic observers called the first round of Macedonia's elections democratic and peaceful. The US ambassador and EU enlargement commissioner agree.

2009-03-18TIRANA, Albania -- The OSCE and the Council of Europe's (CoE) Venice Commission approve of Albania's newly adopted election code, media reported on T...

2009-02-13TIRANA, Albania -- The Council of Europe (CoE) urged Albanian authorities Thursday (February 12th) to amend the controversial lustration law adopted...

2009-02-12TIRANA, Albania -- Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteurs David Wilshire and Jaakko Laakso criticised the ruling majority Wednesday (February 11th) for...

2009-02-03PACE President Luis Maria de Puig is in BiH. Also in diplomatic news: Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar was in Montenegro, and Turkey supports Albania's NATO integration.

2009-01-26TIRANA, Albania -- The Council of Europe (CoE) has called on Albania to complete its investigation of the deadly March 2008 ammunition blasts in Gerd...

2009-01-21PRISTINA, Kosovo --The Kosovo Police Service (KPS) has severely beaten prisoners, the Council of Europe said in a report published on Tuesday (Januar...

2008-12-24STRASBOURG, France -- The Council of Europe and the US Embassy in Tirana on Tuesday (December 23rd) criticised Albania's newly adopted lustration law...

2008-10-30BELGRADE, Serbia -- War crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said on Wednesday (October 29th) that Serbia will ask the Council of Europe to persuade A...

2008-10-02Sunday's local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will feature more than 29,000 candidates from 72 political parties.

2008-10-02STRASBOURG, France -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a report and a related resolution Wednesday (October 1st) u...

2008-10-01STRASBOURG, France -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a report Tuesday (September 30th) on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)'s...