On Friday 29 November 2024, the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, will meet in Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg-Grund.
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos will open the meeting and this will be followed by a welcome address from the President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies (parliament), Claude Wiseler.
The parliamentarians are then due to hold an exchange of views with Minister of Defence and Minister for Mobility and Public Works and for Gender Equality and Diversity, Yuriko Backes, in the framework of Luxembourg's Presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers.
This will be followed by debates on the observation of elections in Moldova and in Bulgaria, and a debate on the report “Civil Society and the Parliamentary Assembly: towards greater transparency and engagement”.
At the end of the meeting, there will be a round table on “The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe as a platform for intercultural dialogue” .
Ahead of the meeting, Luxembourg’s Grand Duchess, Maria Teresa will attend a working breakfast of the Assembly’s Women@PACE group.
The Standing Committee, which acts on the Assembly’s behalf between plenary sessions, is made up of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, the chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national delegations and the committee chairpersons.
