“The walls of our common house have been cracked by the challenge to fundamental rights”, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Tuesday 1 October to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the pan-European organisation.
This “common house” is the one mentioned by Mikhail Gorbachev in July 1989 before the same assembly. At the time, it was a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but 30 years after...