On Wednesday 11 October, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) launched an appeal for a fourth summit of the Council of Europe to be held in order to “preserve and reinforce the pan-European project in a Europe that has changed profoundly since 2005”, when the last summit was held, in Warsaw.
A new summit of the heads of state or government of the 47 member countries of the Council of Europe would define the role that the CoE should play in the European political...