On Russia Early in Brasseur's tenure as president of PACE, the assembly in April 2014 suspended the Russian delegation's voting rights after the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014. Throughout her time in office, she maintained a constant dialogue with Russian
Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin and Russia's PACE delegates.
On Azerbaijan On a 2014 visit to
Azerbaijan, a member country of the Council of Europe, Brasseur criticized that "[i]n certain areas, such as
freedom of expression,
freedom of association and
freedom of assembly, the situation appears to have deteriorated and this has to be addressed urgently." In particular, she expressed her hope that Azeri human rights activist
Ilgar Mammadov would soon be released, after the
European Court of Human Rights had earlier described his imprisonment as an "unjustified restriction of freedom".
On education In June 2007, the Council of Europe's Committee on Culture, Science and Education released a report entitled "The Dangers of Creationism in Education." According to Brasseur, who served as co-author of the report, its goal was to firmly anchor the theory of evolution in school curricula. However, she was later pressured to shorten references in the resolution to "evolution by natural selection" to "evolution" because some members had misunderstood the reference to natural selection to be an attack on their religious beliefs. The council ultimately approved the report's recommendations, with 48 votes in favor and 25 against. ==Other activities==