Human rights agreements, both in terms of scope and regional coverage, continue to be more and more comprehensive. In international trade, there have been efforts to complement multilateral solutions to liberate markets, among other things, through extensive regional and bilateral agreements. The wide-ranging regional arrangements have also been justified through geopolitics. The international monetary system, with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as its core, managed to remain viable even in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008. Nonetheless, the need for stronger global cooperation as well as more robust supervision and crisis management has been recognised. The primary security structures in Europe include the European Union as a comprehensive security policy actor; NATO, which sees to the collective defence of its member states; and the OSCE, a cooperative security organisation. The Council of Europe has a role within Europe’s shared value base. 16