Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, President of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, highlighted the worrying budgetary situation of the Council of Europe in general and of the Congress in particular and the need to consider all possible avenues for reform “without any taboos”¸ when she addressed the 34th session on the Congress in Strasbourg on 27 March.
“We are all entering a very serious period in the life of our organisation and, as a result, that of our...