The perfect partnership

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Series Details 02/10/97, Volume 3, Number 35
Publication Date 02/10/1997
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Date: 02/10/1997

Sweden and Germany have further consolidated their hold on the upper echelons of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe.

While Swede Daniel Tarschys is the institution's secretary-general, the president of its parliamentary assembly is German Christian Democrat Leni Fischer. Tarschys' new number two from this week - the highly respected Christian Krüger, who has been secretary of the European Commission of Human Rights for over 20 years - illustrates the perfect marriage of the two nationalities. He is German and his wife Benedicta is Swedish.

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