The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD) - have welcomed the recent access given by Ukrainian authorities to former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Kharkiv hospital where she is being treated. 

Although "glad" that she is now receiving proper medical attention, the co-rapporteurs also  expressed concern at recent leaks of information regarding her health situation and the treatment she will receive: “Medical information is by definition private and confidential," they said in a press release issued Saturday 19 May. (more...)