“As missiles strike, international law is weaponised”, denounced the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, on Sunday 1 March, after Israel and the United States began bombing Iran.
“This escalation, together with the succession of recent crises, underlines the need for a common European legal framework at the level of the forty-six member states of the Council of Europe”, he continued.
A framework that he wants to be capable of “judging violations and the use...