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The Chair agreed with the idea of adding a fourth column to the table of strategic directions in order to state which activities were effectively carried out and at what cost. He wondered, however, what percentage such activities had within the whole IPU budget compared to, say, travel expenses or staff costs. The primary budget had decreased by about 8%, but due to fluctuations of the Swiss ...

On March 24-27, 2008, the Sub-Committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security visited Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. The delegation was composed of 15 members of parliament from 10 different countries and was led by the Chairman, Tchetin Kazak (Bulgaria). Canada was represented by Senator Percy Downe, Mr. Leon Benoit, M.P ...

From March 4 to 9, 2012, His Excellency Dag Terje Andersen, President of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Norway, led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa, Victoria and Vancouver at the invitation of the Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons. The delegation was composed of Mr. Per Sandberg, Deputy Parliamentary Leader and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice, Ms ...

The delegation, the Assembly’s Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations, was led by Senator Sergio de Gregorio (Italy ) and Assembly Vice President Jadwiga Zakrewska (Poland ), and hosted by the head of the Turkish delegation to the Assembly Vahit Erdem. The programme also included a meeting with students from Bilkent University.

A delegation of six parliamentarians representing the Canadian Section of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA), led by the Honourable Pierrette Ringuette, Senator, travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina from 15 March through 19 March, 2010. Also participating were the Honourable Michel Rivard, Senator, Bev Shipley, M.P., Pablo Rodriguez, M.P., Nicole Demers, M.P. and Peter Julian ...

A delegation of three parliamentarians from the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association travelled to Strasbourg to participate in the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in which Canada enjoys observer status along with Israel and Mexico. The delegation was led by Association president the Hon. Lorna Milne, Senator, and included from the Senate the Hon ...

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Senator Dennis Dawson then went on to present his report on the freedom of the press in francophone countries and suggested creating a new francophone organization dedicated to the freedom of the press.

The first ballot put Nicolas Sarkozy in the lead with 31.1% to Ségolène Royal’s 25.8%, a result not nearly as close as several polls had predicted. Polls taken prior to the second round suggested that Sarkozy would win on May 6 with approximately 54% of the vote. The key was François Bayrou, a centrist chosen by 18.5% of voters, whom both candidates wooed relentlessly. The far-right ...

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the international organization of parliaments of sovereign states. It protects and builds global democracy through political dialogue and concrete action. The IPU also fosters contacts, coordination and the exchange of experiences among parliaments and parliamentarians of all member countries. It is the focal point of international parliamentary dialogue ...