Strasbourg, 04/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - Having lost some prominence since the early 2000s, when it played a considerable role in 'preparing' the states of Central and Eastern Europe for their accession to the European Union, the Council of Europe (COE) is increasingly speaking with a single voice at a time when populism and extremism have become grafted onto the deep economic crisis which started in 2008.
In this sense, the annual report on democracy, human rights and the rule of law in...