A crackdown on demonstrators in Turkey, the detention of the mayor of Istanbul and a clampdown on pro-EU protesters in Georgia – there may be presently no scarcity of challenges to the Council of Europe from its personal members. Europe’s largest and oldest intergovernmental physique – comprising 46 international locations – has a comparatively new boss: Alain Berset turned secretary common in September 2024. We ask him if human rights are underneath assault, and what recourse he has when members flout the organisation’s core ideas and values. Earlier than his present position, Berset was an elected minister within the authorities of Switzerland.
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