During a debate held on the evening of 10 October, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe examined a report on France’s honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe.
Closed by a resolution (44 votes in favour, 19 against and 4 abstentions), this debate is part of a procedure introduced in 2017 to periodically examine the state of the Rule of law, democracy and human rights in each of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe.
Among the positive points, the...