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Spring session, Strasbourg - 25 to 29 April 2005
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Debates on assistance to patients at end of life and the lawfulness of detentions by the United States in Guantánamo Bay as well as the freedom of the press and the working conditions of journalists in risk zones were among highlights of the Spring Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which took place in Strasbourg from 25 to 29 April 2005. (more...)


Highlights...
The Polish Presidency is focusing on preparations for the Third Council of Europe Summit (more...)
Svetozar Marovic: ''Europe is our choice, the goal and the future'' (more...)
Jean-Claude Juncker: ''The Council of Europe is irreplaceable on the European scene'' (more...)
''Positive changes'' in the situation of children abandoned in institutions, say parliamentarians (more...)
US government has ''betrayed its own highest principles'' by torturing Guantánamo Bay detainees, say Council of Europe parliamentarians (more...)
PACE rejects draft resolution on end-of-life assistance for patients
(more...)
Parliamentarians denounce kidnapping of journalists (more...)
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focus
René van der Linden : ''We have to make further use of our double mandate in PACE and in our national Parliaments'' (more...)
interviews
Dick Marty: "Assistance at the end of life: respecting the patient's will"
Kevin McNamara: “Liberalising euthanasia means recognising the right to kill”
Michaël Hancock : ''The Council of Europe has a duty to defend children placed in institutions and orphanages''
Beatrice Hess: ''The key to less discrimination is more media coverage of women’s sport''



Summit of Heads of State and Government 2005
The Council of Europe Summit of Heads of State and Government will be held on 16 and 17 May 2005 in Warsaw. It will define the Council's future goals and priorities in a new political mandate.

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