16/10/2026 | 12:15:48 Honourable colleagues, I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the host country, Italy and the organisers, the Council of Europe, for your great hospitality here in Rome. It is hardly an overstatement to say that we live in challenging times. The rules-based order, as we know it, is under attack by many different actors. I am not only referring to the perhaps most blatant example, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A war that has already been going on for far too long. There...
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