Strasbourg, 28/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - Anne Brasseur, a Liberal, has been elected 27th President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. She is the first Luxembourg national to hold the post. The only other woman to hold the post since 1949 is German Christian Democrat Leni Fischer, who was president from 1996 to 1999.
Brasseur takes over from French Conservative Jean-Claude Mignon who is a member of the European People's Party and who had been elected in January 2012 for...