The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been lobbying for Council of Europe observer states who practice the death penalty, the U. S. and Japan, to abolish it or lose their observer status.

* Anne Brasseur ( DP, Luxembourg ): President of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ( ALDE-PACE )

It is a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Fine Gael's MEPs sit with the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Committee of the Regions.

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

A Parliamentary Assembly ( composed of the delegations of the member states to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ) supervised the work of the Council, but it did not have any obligations on the Council.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommends for parliamentary elections a threshold not higher than 3 %.

Judges are elected by majority vote in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from the three candidates each contracting state nominates.

He moved to be Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1950 where he was a delegate to the Council of Europe and resisted plans for a European army.

After being passed by the Parliamentary Council assembled at the Museum Koenig in Bonn on 8 May 1949 — the Museum was the only intact building in Bonn large enough to house the assembly — and after being approved by the occupying powers on 12 May 1949, it was ratified by the parliaments of all the Länder with the exception of Bavaria ( Bayern ).

* The conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference — Report by rapporteur David Atkinson presented to Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

* Resolution # 1416 from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

In an attempt at reconciliation with Parliament, Charles gave royal assent to the Bill of Attainder and invited leading Parliamentary critics to join his Privy Council.

From 1974 to 1977, he belonged to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and was rapporteur for the admission of Portugal.

* Germany: Parlamentarischer Rat ( Parliamentary Council ) ( 1948 ) – Drafted the Basic Law of the Federal Republic for ratification by the Länder.

The decision still requires approval of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After an initial statement of denial to the House Commons, Profumo was forced to admit that he had lied, and had no alternative but to resign ( June 1963 ) from the government, the Privy Council, and his Parliamentary seat.

The position of General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress was created in 1921, when the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC became the General Council.

The Executive Council is made up of the Party's highest officials, representatives of the General Council, Parliamentary Groups, Sectional Committees and the Party branches and MEPs.

Parliamentary elections are held at least once every five years, usually concurrent with state elections for state assemblies except for Sabah ( until 2004 ) and Sarawak.

Parliamentary elections are held at least once every five years, with the last general election being in March 2008.

Upon his death, Gulzarilal Nanda once again assumed the role of Acting Prime Minister until the Congress Parliamentary Party elected Indira Gandhi over Morarji Desai to officially succeed Shastri.

For one, Rousseau argued in " The Social Contract ", that in the stereotypical liberal democracy, individuals are politically " free " once every Parliamentary term, or every two to four years, when they vote for their representatives, in their General Election or on Election Day.

During the 1920s there were concerns about the long queues of cars and lorries at the Mersey Ferry terminal so once Royal Assent to a Parliamentary Bill was received construction of the first Mersey Road Tunnel started in 1925, to a design by consulting engineer Sir Basil Mott.

He was once a Parliamentary Private Secretary, but was forced to resign and was suspended for 20 days after he was found to have accepted a £ 1000 bribe to ask questions in Parliament, popularly known as the Cash for Questions affair.

However, he once again rose to the top of the expenses list for the 2007 – 08 Parliamentary Session with £ 187, 334.

From 12 December 2011, Clapham High Street has been the starting point for the ' Parliamentary Train ' operating once each weekday to Kensington Olympia, departing at 16: 11 and stopping at Wandsworth Road, Imperial Wharf and West Brompton.

The hall occupies a site at the junction of Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street, which was once home to the Glasgow NAAFI, and the former Parliamentary Road, which was rendered derelict after the building of Buchanan bus station in 1978.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Hartington ( Secretary of State for War 1882-5 ) and once drove him to a Cabinet meeting on a sleigh through the snow.

Fortunately for the supporters of the Union Debating Society, and the proponents of single-sex debating, the appeal of the Parliamentary and Dialectic Society proved to be short-lived, and by 1932 the Students ' Union was once more backing the Union Debating Society.

In the first two sessions he was Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, which met once in each session to review private bills.

Shortly afterwards Bonar Law was asked to form a government and once again appointed Davidson as his Parliamentary Private Secretary and unofficial unpaid private secretary.

Baldwin once again formed an administration after the brief first-ever 1924 Labour government, and made Davidson Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.

The National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence operates an invitation-only national championship tournament once per year for parliamentary debate ( a. k. a. parli ).

Charles Louis ' endorsement of the Parliamentary party was a cause of enmity between uncle and nephew, and when a captive Charles I met his nephew once again in 1647, the elder Charles accused the Prince of angling after the English throne.

The handbook is published once during each three-year Parliament by the Department of the Parliamentary Library, under the authority of the Parliament.

From this point forward, there was a single electoral register for both local government and Parliamentary elections and each voter was only allowed to vote once in any general election even if they happened to be registered in more than one address for local elections.

Platform 3a-used by a small number of services to Wigan and Southport as well as the once per week Parliamentary train to Stalybridge.

When Chamberlain reshuffled his government in early April 1940, Warrender once again became Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.

They also believed that Labour had become too left-wing, and had been infiltrated at constituency level by Trotskyist factions whose views and behaviour they considered to be at odds with the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour voters.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

The Parliamentary government had its way but it became clear that the division was not between Catholics and Protestants, but between Puritans and those who valued the Elizabethan settlement.

Two decades earlier the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 had stated that the United Kingdom and the dominions were " equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations ".

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

By January 1645 the Parliamentary forces in Coventry had strengthened their hold on the castle and attempts by Royalist forces to dislodge them from Warwickshire failed.

Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals ' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.

Glanvill and More had been vehemently opposed in the 1670s by the sceptic John Webster, an Independent and sometime chaplain to the Parliamentary forces.

Clarke also had issues with the provisions, and the debate went on until the end of the Parliamentary session, with the bill failing to pass.

It acted as the Parliamentary Court, had the right to control ' citizens ' books ', and had similar legislative rights as did the Chamber of Deputies.

As a student, he had transcribed notes on British parliamentary law into a manual which he would later call his Parliamentary Pocket Book.

They were committed broadly to the abolition of corruption within the Parliamentary and judicial process, toleration of religious differences, the translation of law into the common tongue and, arguably, something that could be considered democracy in its modern form-arguably the first time contemporary democratic ideas had been formally framed and adopted by a political movement.

After Butt's death the Home Rule Movement, or the Irish Parliamentary Party as it had become known, was turned into a major political force under the guidance of William Shaw and in particular a radical young Protestant landowner, Charles Stewart Parnell.

The Irish Parliamentary Party dominated Irish politics, to the exclusion of the previous Liberal, Conservative and Unionist parties that had existed.

The Conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long Parliamentary debate Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act of 1867, more far-reaching than Gladstone's proposed bill had been.

Bermuda had actually tended towards the Royalist side in the English Civil War, but largely escaped the effects of the conflict, and the aftermath of the Parliamentary forces ' victory.

Parliamentary boroughs in England ranged wildly in size from small hamlets to large cities, largely because they had evolved haphazardly.

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

The military quality of the Welsh border Royalists was well proved, that of the Gloucestershire Presbyterians not less so, and, in basing himself on Gloucester and Worcester as his father had done on Oxford, Charles II hoped, naturally, to deal with the Independent faction minority of the English people more effectually than Charles I had earlier dealt with the majority of the people of England who had supported the Parliamentary cause.

The Earl's men were hungry and weary, following their escape from Kingston upon Thames, where the Parliamentary forces had completely overwhelmed them.

Massey had been one of the few Parliamentary commanders to retain an independent commission when the New Model Army was formed.