07/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - New legal definition of rape in Germany acceptable to Council of Europe. On Wednesday 6 July, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Thorbjorn Jagland, responded to the vote that day at the Bundestag and said that Germany was now in compliance with the 2011 CoE Istanbul Convention opposing violence against women. In a reference to former German legislation limiting the definition to any sexual relation obtained by violence, he underlined that...