At the end of a particularly busy plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE), its president, Tiny Kox, reaffirmed on Friday 14 October that “there is no confrontation” between the Strasbourg-based organisation and the new European Political Community (EPC) launched in Prague on 6 and 7 October.
The Council of Europe’s specificity is the defence of fundamental rights, he said, and these are not part of the EPC’s scope of action.
Repeated since last...