Meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg this week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on Tuesday 27 June enabling it to dismiss its president and vice-presidents, as well the presidents and vice-presidents of its different committees, in cases of serious misconduct. This amendment to its rules of procedure was implemented in order to put an early end to the mandate of current PACE president Pedro Agramunt, who is from Spain and the ranks of...