Pedro Agramunt

The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize - which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights - is to be awarded at a special ceremony on the opening day of the autumn plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Monday.

BIRN regional director Gordana Igric is among the three candidates for the award this year.

BELGRADE - Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic met Tuesday with the president of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Pedro Agramunt, expressing the expectation that the institution would recognise the progress achieved by Serbia to date.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday received the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Pedro Agramunt to discuss the current international issues such as the refugee and the migrant crisis, the rise of nationalism and extremism in Europe and the fight against terrorism.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will attend the September 15-16 European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Strasbourg.

The Council of Europe might choose to drop the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria on the observation of human rights, the newly elected head of CoE's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has said.

In his first press briefing after the election, Pedro Agramunt said he would "closely follow" the issue, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.