The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will pay a visit to the Republic of Moldova on 20 and 21 November, as the country begins ...

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset congratulated Ukraine on the thirtieth anniversary of its accession ...

“Previous generations built an order to keep peace. Now we must build one to keep democracy, by making democracy the centre of gravity for security, accountability, and solidarity”, said the Secretary ...

Secretary General Alain Berset has underlined the enduring importance of the European Convention on Human Rights as a democratic compass for the ...

The Council of Europe's initiative to establish an international tribunal to prosecute crimes of aggression against Ukraine ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 25 signed an accord with the Council of Europe to establish a special tribunal to try top officials responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The ...

The secretary-general of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, tells BIRN why the European rights body recently adopted the first-ever international treaty aimed at protecting lawyers from harassment ...

The head of the Council of Europe has questioned whether signatory nations ‘will still be worthy’ of the European Convention ...

Former Swiss president Alain Berset is to become the new secretary general of the Council of Europe after the 52-year-old prevailed in two rounds of voting against Estonian Indrek Saar and Belgian ...

The Georgian government has pledged to amend its controversial "foreign agents" law following discussions with the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset. Berset announced at a press ...