Continued efforts for Council of Europe

Anne Brasseur is in town to review Monaco's progress in meeting all the requirements for membership of the Council of Europe.

Anne Brasseur : "there's still a lot to do" [1]

Monaco joined the Council of Europe in 2004, and a first review stage was completed in 2009 [2], with the Principality successfully making advances in the status of the judiciary and in fighting money laundering.

A second phase is now under way, with Brasseur mandated to study Monaco's achievements since 2009. She says there's a lot to do:

• ratifying protocols 1 (property) and 12 (discrimination) of the European Convention of Human Rights
• changes to cybercrime law
• ratifying the European Social Charter [3]

However the European representative says that the Principality may not have sufficient resources to make the necessary changes quickly and should ask the Council of Europe for help.