The meeting of the heads of state and government of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe, scheduled for 16 and 17 May in Reykjavik, was seen and described as a “Emergency summit”, and was the focus of the Parliamentary Assembly’s debates on Tuesday 24 January, with one central question: what should be its objectives?
Invited to speak at lunchtime, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said she was “convinced that the Council of Europe, as an early warning mechanism,...