The second part of the 2023 session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) began yesterday in Strasbourg, with the participation of MEPs Mr. Mr. Nikos Tornaritis (leader), Mr. George Loukaidis and Mr. Kostis Efstathiou.
Mr. Loucaides addressed a question to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Ms Burić Dunja Mijatović, who addressed the Plenary Assembly today.
Congratulating Ms Mijatović for the important work she is doing, Mr Loucaides noted the Commissioner's references in her Annual Report on the rise of poverty, inequalities and social exclusion in Europe as very appropriate.
The pursuit of profit maximisation for the few at the expense of people and their rights, but also of the natural environment, Mr Loucaides underlined, directly or indirectly exacerbates a number of socio-political phenomena, such as the dangerous rise of racism and the far right in many European countries, undermining the quality and resilience of democratic institutions.
Mr. Loucaides asked for information on the additional measures that the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights intends to take in order to strengthen social and labour rights, which are included in the Council of Europe's European Social Charter.
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