22/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
There is not any hierarchy between the European Convention of Human Rights, EU law and national constitutions, in the sense of a traditional approach to the hierarchy of norms within a constitutional framework. Indeed, in the context of such multi-level constitutionalism “any attempt to impose...
24/01/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Iceland. Ms Arnardóttir, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
24/01/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Anne Louise Haahr Bormann as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Denmark. Ms Bormann, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
20/05/2022 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have appealed to Turkey’s authorities to find a solution to the Kavala case which is in line with an earlier ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Ending a three-day visit to Istanbul...
26/04/2022 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Mykola Gnatovskyy as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine. Mr Gnatovskyy, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office...
25/11/2021 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Poland of the Monitoring Committee, Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson (Sweden, SOC) and Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), have today expressed their deep concern at yesterday’s ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human...
29/09/2021 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today called for an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and European level, to anchor “the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” and presented a draft of an additional protocol to the European Convention...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Katerina Šimáčková as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Czech Republic. Mrs Šimáčková, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Diana Scobioală as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Republic of Moldova. Mrs Scobioală, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a...
28/09/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Mikhail Borisovich Lobov as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Russian Federation. Mr Lobov, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for...
09/09/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee is urging an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and European level, to “anchor the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” – and has presented a draft of an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights which would...
22/06/2021 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Davor Derenčinović as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Croatia. Mr Derenčinović, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...