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Efficiency and quality of justice in Europe: Council of Europe publishes its 2022 report
CEPEJ
5 October 2022
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) has set out the main trends of the judicial systems of 44 European countries and 3 observer States (*) in a report, country profiles and an interactive database (all publicly available). This evaluation report, the...
Angela Merkel to receive UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for protecting refugees at height of Syria crisis
Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Migration and Refugees
4 October 2022
Strasbourg
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany, will receive the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Each year, the award – named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen – is given to an...