Archiv: Parlamentarische Versammlung des Europarates / Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)


12.12.2022 - 15:42 [ PACE / piped.video ]

PACE public hearing: Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance

The hearing, organised by PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, will focus on the role played by spyware in secret state surveillance, as part of a report on this topic being prepared for the Assembly by Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt.

Participants include:

* Krzysztof Brejza, a member of the Polish Sejm from the opposition Civic Platform party, and a former member of PACE (accompanied by his lawyer, Dorota Brejza).

* Diana Riba, a Spanish member of the European Parliament from Catalonia’s Republican Left Party, and Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s committee of inquiry which is also currently investigating the use of Pegasus and similar spyware.

* Thanasis Koukakis, an investigative journalist from Greece specialising in financial affairs, who has reported on corruption and money laundering (via teleconference).

12.12.2022 - 08:33 [ ModernDiplomacy.eu ]

Politicians and journalists targeted by spyware to testify at Council of Europe parliamentary hearing in Paris

Politicians and journalists from Poland, Spain and Greece who have been targeted by the Pegasus or similar spyware are to give testimony at a public hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Paris on 12 December 2022, to be live-streamed in English.

The hearing, organised by PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, will focus on the role played by spyware in secret state surveillance, as part of a report on this topic being prepared for the Assembly by Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD).

12.12.2022 - 08:28 [ Wikipedia ]

Council of Europe

The Council of Europe (CoE; French: Conseil de l‘Europe, CdE) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.[2] Founded in 1949, it has 46 member states, with a population of approximately 675 million; it operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros.[3]

The organisation is distinct from the European Union (EU), although it is sometimes confused with it, partly because the EU has adopted the original European flag, created for the Council of Europe in 1955,[4] as well as the European anthem.

12.12.2022 - 08:14 [ facts4eu.org ]

Brussels rocked – EU Parliament Vice-President arrested in alleged Qatar corruption scandal

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor‘s Office said on Friday that it had already recovered €600,000 in cash in Friday‘s raids.

„For several months, investigators of the Federal Judicial Police have suspected a Gulf country of influencing the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament.