After suspending Russia’s rights of representation on 25 February, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers could go further and ask it to “withdraw by notifying the Secretary General of its decision” (Article 7 of the organisation’s Statute).
“More and more voices” are moving in this direction, Croatian Marija Pejčinović Burić, the current Secretary General of the Council of Europe, said on Friday; but on Monday, discussions were still intense among representatives...