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Setting up a European network of police forces
Council of Europe
21 October 2020
Strasbourg
At a conference on the role of the police in a democratic society attended by high-level representatives of European Ministers of the Interior on 20 and 21 October, the Council of Europe proposed to set up its own permanent high-level network of the police forces of the 47 member states. Some 90...
New factsheet on the execution of ECHR judgments concerning environment
Council of Europe
20 October 2020
Strasbourg
Although the European Convention on Human Rights does not contain an explicit right to a clean and quiet environment, the Court has developed its case-law and established that where an individual is directly and seriously affected by noise or other pollution, an issue may arise under the...