8 hours ago71 years from founding of the Council of Europe
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(6 years ago)The Council of Europe is an organisation of European states, founded on May 5, 1949, to achieve a greater union among member states on the basis of their common traditions of political freedom. The Council of Europe's goal is to achieve greater unity among its members. Ideologists [...]
The Council of Europe's goal is to achieve greater unity among its members. The Council of Europe's greatest idealologists were Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, Conrad Adenauer.
The organisation has 47 member states, covers approximately 820m people and operates on an annual budget of about 500m euros. The Council of Europe is an official observer of the United Nations.
Unlike the EU, the Council of Europe cannot make binding laws, but has the power to implement selected international agreements reached by European states on different topics.
The Council of Europe's best-known body is the European Court of Human Rights, which implements the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Council of Europe headquarters is in Strasbourg. English and French are its two official languages.
The Committee of Ministers, Parliamentary Assembly and Congress also use German, Italian, Russian and Turkish for some of their work.
