Ireland has strengthened its heritage engagement with Europe by formally joining the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe ...

The Council of Europe urged all its 46 member nations to halt their deliveries of weapons to Israel due to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza.

The Council of Europe urged its member states on Tuesday to halt deliveries of weapons to Israel if they could be used for human rights violations. The call by the Council -- a human rights ...

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset will soon visit Kyiv and meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the Council of Europe’s website. "In the coming days, I ...

However, Berset stressed that the European Court of Human Rights “is not an external body” but the legal arm of the Council of Europe, and is "bound by a Convention that all 46 members have ...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says Russia could pose a security threat to the European Union by the end of the decade and that defense industries in Europe and Ukraine must be ramped up.

The 46-member Council of Europe is not part of the EU and members include key non-EU European states such as Turkey, the UK and Ukraine. Russia was expelled in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.

The Council of Europe on Saturday defended the independence of the European Court of Human Rights, after nine member states said its interpretation of rights obligations prevented them from ...