Germany joined the Council of Europe 70 years ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday morning in a video conference at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. At the time, it was about “reaching out”, she stressed, noting that the institution had been the “first inter-state organisation” to have welcomed her country “among nations” after the Second World War.
The promise was that of “living together” based on “European values”....