Council of Europe
I am writing this week from Strasbourg where I am attending the First part of the 2012 Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Prime Minister is coming out to address the Assembly on Wednesday as President of the Council of Ministers to the Assembly. The reception he receives from the 47 member countries has potential for a collective discord following his earlier demands put on him from his own backbenches to reform the European Convention of Human Rights or take the UK out of it.
KGB
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Strasbourg / Test
Strasbourg:
Human Rights were very much at the forefront of my busy schedule as I attended the week long Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week. I will now sit on the Assembly’s Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons committee this session. The week was punctuated on the Wednesday with a visit from the UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The last British Prime Minister to address the Assembly was Winston Churchill, so he knew he had to be more statesman than Euro sceptic. The PM had jetted from his PMQ’s in the House of Commons which he ended …
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