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European Court of Human Rights : updated “country profiles” now online
The European Court of Human Rights has published an updated set of “country profiles” containing facts, figures and summaries of key cases for all 47 Council of Europe member states. The factsheets have been revised to take into account the Court’s annual statistics for 2021, which were published...
Situation in Ukraine
The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chair of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, Luigi Di Maio, has made the following statement: “As Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, I support the statement of the Secretary General of the...
Belarus: constitutional amendments put to referendum fail to correct existing strong imbalance of powers, says Venice Commission
The Venice Commission in its urgent interim opinion on the constitutional reform in Belarus said that the draft amendments which will be submitted to referendum of 27 February 2022 “fail to correct the strong imbalance of powers which already exists under the current Constitution and indeed may...