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Prison overcrowding continues to be an acute and persistent problem in a significant number of European prison administrations, according to the Council of Europe's Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations (SPACE I) for 2023, released…

In a report published today, the Council of Europe's anti-money laundering body MONEYVAL calls on the Romanian authorities to further strengthen measures to combat money laundering (ML) and the financing of terrorism (TF) (See Executive…

The Council of Europe asked Romania to declassify the contracts based on which parties give money to media institutions. At the same time, it requested that the justice laws be amended in accordance with the opinions of the Venice…

Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Krista Baumane (Latvia, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Romania, will make a…

In its first report on Romania, the Council of Europe's GREVIO – the independent expert group that monitors implementation of the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) –…

The Council of Europe today issued a set of guidelines to its 46 member states aimed at preventing and combating hate speech, both online and offline. In a Recommendation adopted during its annual session held in Turin, the Council of…

The Covid-19 pandemic contributed to reducing the prison population in Europe between January 2020 and January 2021, consolidating a ten-year-long trend in most European states, according to the Council of Europe's Annual Penal Statistics…

The Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has warned of the dangers of people fleeing the armed conflict in Ukraine falling victim to human trafficking and exploitation, amid the…

In an extraordinary meeting this morning, the Committee of Ministers decided, in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the Council…

Following the suspension of its rights of representation in the Council of Europe on 25 February, the Russian Federation remains bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, including the obligation to implement judgments from the…