“2022 will be remembered as a year of terrible violence and seismic change in Europe”, writes the Secretary General of the Council of Europe at the start of her annual report, which was published on Wednesday 4 May on the eve of the 74th anniversary of the oldest and largest pan-European organisation.
Referring at length to the war launched by Russia against Ukraine on 24 February, Marija Pejčinović Burić recalled that the Council of Europe’s raison d'être is to achieve a...