(Original: Parliamentary Assembly debates next Secretary General of the Council of Europe and celebrates the 60th anniversary CoE's )
No, the € Europe is not the Council of the European Union , he is an independent international organization with 47 member countries of the continent. The € Europe is a European Union light , he is like the smart older brother from whom all thought that he would sometimes be the pride of the family, except that the younger brother studied economics, got rich (with coal and steel ), and so now for all the family gifts and should be the darling boy. The elder brother studied philosophy, came around, always had more real friends, wrote the books better, had the better answers and I was respected by his colleagues and all who knew him - only he had simply never been enough money and attention, to make himself popular.
This older brother, € Europe this year celebrates its 60th Birthday.
meets this week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council - the Consultative Assembly, the predecessor of the European Parliament, is very similar - their second of four annual meetings. Parliamentarians from the 47 Member States in Strasbourg to discuss issues of general importance and urgency.
course also plays the birthday of the Europe an important role during this sitting week. In his birthday speech after this small film summarized Lluís Maria de Puig , the President of the Parliamentary Assembly met the Council of Europe as successful.
" The € Europe is above all a moral size, this size is different ways, but with the same goal, expressed by the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights , which this year celebrates its 50th birthday, by the Committee of Ministers , which represents the governments, through the institution the Commissioner for Human Rights by the Venice Commission and by European Youth Centre , to name just a few, and of course by this meeting with the elected representatives of the voice of 800 million Europeans to the outside. "the important issues of this sitting week will be the three urgencies :
- the situation in the Moldova ;
- the non-ratification of the Protocol 14 to the European Convention of Human Rights and
- to election of the next Secretary General of the Europe .
The second theme is an old friend for € Council of Europe experts, since identified four years: 46 of 47 Member States of the Council (which have so that all the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was ratified, including some additional Protocols), have the 14th Additional Protocol to the Convention signed and ratified, and has been for years. Only Russia, although it signed the protocol, refused to ratify it. This protocol is intended to the Functioning of the Human Rights Court, which oversees the Convention to reform and simplify, as the European Human Rights Court is overloaded with cases and can work faster has to be justice to his task. But since Russia would not benefit them, of course, if more cases were closed (against Russia), it blocked the reform that can only come into force when all 47 states have ratified the protocol.
The third theme , most of you probably do not have on the screen. € The Council receives this year a new Secretary General. The incumbent, Terry Davis may not run again, and so, Member States were invited to submit nominations for a successor.
According to various sources (eg here and here ), there were four candidates (the deadline for doing so had expired in March), internal of which, after a vote at the diplomatic level in the past week (the unconfirmed results are be published here ) only the first two below the names of the Parliamentary Assembly at its next meeting in June provided.
Candidates are (or were):
- former Polish Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz ;
- the former Norwegian Prime Minister and currently President of the Parliament Thorbjorn Jagland ;
- the former Flemish Prime Minister (Belgium) and current President of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union Luc Van den Brande ;
- the Hungarian Parliament simply Mátyás Eörsi .
are shown as the entire session via Live Stream you can look at the well.
It seems an interesting birthday week to add and are still talking of Tarja Halonen , President of Finland and the English Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .
is the end really only one request: I know that the euro ignored by most of Europe and by some estimates is low, but the themes he worked and the width of the countries it covers, make it one of the three major European agencies such as the EU and the OSCE. I can-follow only recommend what happened in its various organs and institutions, because even if the political impact may not always be visible, so the € Europe plays but in many cases, not least in Eastern Europe and in connection with legal judgments of the Court of Human Rights, a central role in the protection of European values, especially for the protection of human rights!
I wish, therefore, happy birthday, brother € Europe, and wish them much luck and success for the future!
(Note: The English original of this article was the 500th Article of "Watching Europe. Since it was only logical to him to widemen a pan-European organization, which is older than the European Union, which - to know not many - the mother of the European flag and anthem, the ranges in nearly all areas of the continent, and to the values prescribed, are also driving for my personal, political and professional activity: human rights, democracy and rule of law)
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