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.
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) publishes report on its 2025 visit to Liechtenstein
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published a report today on its periodic visit to Liechtenstein, carried out from 7...
Conference addresses growing involvement of youth in terrorism and violent extremism
Digital spaces like gaming platforms can allow radicalisation to grow
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) carries out a visit to the United Kingdom
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out its tenth periodic visit to the United Kingdom from 11 to 22 May 2026....
Serious overcrowding and increasing proportions of older and women detainees in European prisons
Council of Europe’s 2025 penal statistics for the continent published
27th International Workshop on the Implementation of the Convention
This workshop took place at a particularly important moment, as landscapes across Europe are facing unprecedented pressures arising from climate change, biodiversity loss, and increasing...
Canada signs Council of Europe convention setting up an International Claims Commission for Ukraine
First non-European country to back forthcoming compensation review body
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
Slovenia: Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO closes monitoring round
Preventing corruption within senior central-government positions and law enforcement was the focus
North Macedonia will sign Council of Europe’s landmark AI convention
North Macedonia will sign Council of Europe’s landmark AI convention
Register of Damage for Ukraine: new claims categories concerning the Ukrainian state and legal entities opened
“Systemic economic losses” as a result of Russian aggression can be registered for first time
Council of Europe calls for wider accession to the Medicrime Convention
Weight-loss and performance-enhancing drugs are particular counterfeiting targets
President of the Venice Commission: "Election observation is a powerful instrument for maintaining, renovating and reconstructing trust. Election observers are both the watchdogs of electoral integrity and democracy and human rights defenders."
Paris, France 29 April 2026 “We meet at a crucial moment for democracy in Europe and beyond. This discussion forms part of the broader vision of the New Democratic Pact for Europe of the Council of Europe
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) visits residential care homes in Portugal
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit to Portugal from 14 to 24 April 2026, focusing on social care homes...
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...
Serbia: Venice Commission assesses legislative amendments to laws governing the judiciary and the prosecution
Urgent opinion requested by the National Assembly President published
Prevent violence in educational correctional institutions, address overcrowding and improve conditions in psychiatric hospitals in Serbia
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee’s report on its visit to Serbia at the end of 2024
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) publishes report on its November-December 2024 visit to Serbia
The CPT today published the report of its ad hoc visit to Serbia (14–22 November and 13–18 December 2024), which examined the conditions of detention and treatment of persons held in juvenile ...
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