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Safe digital environments: Pompidou Group’s advancing action on the mental health and wellbeing of children and youth online
Policymakers, researchers and practitioners from the Pompidou Group member States and internationally gathered in Vienna and online on 2–3 June 2026 for a thematic seminar dedicated to the topic of online and digital addictions....
Europe strengthens co-operation on drug policy and addictions at Pompidou Group meeting in Vienna
How can Europe respond more effectively to organised crime linked to drug trafficking, protect human rights, and tackle emerging forms of addiction in an increasingly digital world? These questions were at the centre of the 98th meeting of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, held in...
Pompidou Group adopts new Guidelines to strengthen member States' response to drug-related organised crime (OC-DT)
The Permanent Correspondents of the Pompidou Group have adopted new Guidelines designed to strengthen member States’ response to Organised Crime linked to Drug Trafficking, while ensuring full respect for human rights.
Strengthening election reporting in the age of disinformation and AI
Strengthening professional, accurate and balanced reporting during elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the focus of a two-day training for media professionals dedicated to reporting on...
Creating, altering and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material is criminalised under Council of Europe conventions
Countries urged to review reservations that limit prosecution for AI-generated abuse material
Council of Europe at the 2026 European Dialogue on internet governance
Balancing risks and opportunities for human rights in new digital technologies
Monaco round table focuses on youth, education and digital safeguards
Parliamentarians, youth representatives and experts met in Monaco for a round table organised by the PACE Parliamentary and Electoral Co-operation Division together with the Monaco delegation to PACE to discuss the impact of new technologies on young people, education and democratic life...
Committee warns of risks but highlights democratic potential of AI
PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy has adopted a draft report stressing that artificial intelligence (AI) brings both major opportunities and serious risks for democratic systems, while warning that “efforts to ensure that AI systems are safe and regulated by democratic governance...
What are the implications for human rights in immersive realities?
Council of Europe conference explores the effect of XR on democracy
North Macedonia Signs the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence
North Macedonia signed the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No. 225) on 8 May 2026, during the official.... Latest news of the Council of Europe's work related to AI
Official visit by Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset in Skopje
North Macedonia joins the Council of Europe AI Convention
“Further reforms, including constitutional ones, remain essential”, says Secretary General in Sarajevo
Council of Europe launches new Action plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2026-29
12 years of co-operation between Romania and the Council of Europe to strengthen capacities in the field of cybercrime
The Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) of the Council of Europe, based in Bucharest, is celebrating its 12th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, a meeting was held in Bucharest on...
The Assembly supports content creators against AI companies
PACE is calling for a balanced regulation of artificial intelligence that empowers the creative sector and protects citizens and democracy at large. Approving a resolution based on a report by Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE said that current copyright laws in Europe are “neither clear-cut nor...
Council of Europe calls for greater transparency and stronger oversight of online platforms’ algorithms
New Committee of Ministers Recommendation on online safety and empowerment of users and content creators
Protecting human rights in the digitalisation of social welfare systems
Speech delivered on the occasion of the Side event: "Digitalisation of social protection systems in Europe -The promise of efficiency versus the reality of exclusion" of the High level...
PACE committee supports content creators against AI companies
A PACE committee is calling for a balanced regulation of artificial intelligence that empowers the creative sector and protects citizens and democracy at large. Approving a draft resolution based on a report by Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE’s Culture Committee said that current copyright...
Council of Europe calls for stronger co-operation and balanced drug policies at the 69th CND Session
Today, 10 March 2026, in Vienna, Ambassador Gerhard DOUJAK, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Vienna, delivered a statement on behalf of the Council of Europe International Co-operation Group on Drugs and Addictions (Pompidou Group)....
The Council of Europe International Co-operation Group on Drugs and Addictions at the 69th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: advancing human rights-based drug policies
From 9 to 13 March 2026, the international drug policy community will gather in Vienna for the 69th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). As the capital city for the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s International Co-operation Group on Drugs and Addictions (2026–2027), Vienna...
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