Norway’s Ingjerd Schou (EPP) was clear in presenting her report “Council of Europe Budgets and Priorities 2024/2027” to the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday 21 June: “To deliver effectively on the Reykjavik agenda, Member States must invest additional resources”.
The budgetary gap created by Russia’s exclusion in March 2022 (more than 27 million in 2022 and more than 35 million in 2023) has been covered by the 46 member states of the Council of...