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Last week I attended the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. The parliamentarians from 46 European states, including former Tory ministers, voted to accept Kosovo into membership despite loud objections from Serbia. 

The debate was led by Dora Bakoyannis, a former foreign minister of Greece and sister of the current Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a center-right leader who has refused all arrangements with far-right Greek neo-Nazis, unlike some of his confreres further north in Europe.

She produced a thorough report explaining why the citizens of Kosovo should enjoy the protection of the European Convention of Human Rights enforced by the European Court of Human Rights on which a British judge, Lincoln's Inn Bencher Tim Eicke sits.

It means Kosovars now have the protection of the European Court of...