Thursday, 20 September 2012
PRESIDENT VELJANOSKI AT THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF PARLIAMENTS IN STRASBOURG
Speakers and Presidents of Parliaments from the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, partner and observer states, as well as Presidents of several international parliamentary assemblies, will be in Strasbourg for the Conference on 20 and 21 September. The Delegation of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia will be headed by the President of the legislative house Mr. Trajko Veljanoski.
Around 350 representatives of parliamentary democracy are expected at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliaments, held under the auspices of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which will be debating three major topical issues
President Veljanoski will have a presentation on two of the topics: “the Future of the European Court of Human Rights - role of national parliaments”, and “Is representative democracy in crisis? Challenges for national parliaments”.
The first European Speakers’ Conference was held in 1975. It takes place every two years, hosted alternately in Strasbourg and a capital of a Council of Europe member state.